Toronto’s Pearson airport is responding to an emergency involving a Delta Airlines plane arriving from Minneapolis Monday afternoon, the airport said in a post to X just before 3 p.m.
The airport didn’t immediately provide further information on the nature of the emergency, but a photo submitted to CBC from a passenger shows a plane flipped on its back.
All passengers and crew are accounted for, the airport said.
Peel Region paramedics say they are on the scene. They say they are dealing with eight patients involved in the emergency, but don’t yet know the extent of their injuries.
The airport said earlier in the day that it was expecting a busy day on Monday as airlines catch up after 22 centimetres of snowfall over the weekend, which caused a mass of delays and cancellations. Over 130,000 travellers were expected to board around 1,000 flights, it said in a post on Monday morning.
The Delta Airlines plane has capacity for 95 seats and was built by Bombardier Inc., according to an aircraft registration posted on FlightAware, an online flight tracking platform. It has been registered to Delta Airlines since January 2010, according to the website.
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