WATCH: Passenger shares video of evacuation from upside down Delta plane in Toronto pic.twitter.com/0iHo0SuuaU
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Video from the scene shows the Mitsubishi CRJ-900LR upside down on the snowy tarmac as emergency workers hose it down. The plane was somewhat obscured by snow from a winter storm that hit Toronto over the weekend.The plane came to a rest at the intersection of Runways 23 and 15L, the controller said. “Just so you’re aware, there’s people outside walking around the aircraft there,” a tower controller said.
A Delta flight carrying roughly 80 passengers from Minnesota appears to have crash landed at Toronto Pearson Airport. No casualties have been reported as of this time. Numerous photos and videos have been released showing passengers safely exiting the plane, which flipped upside… pic.twitter.com/YWjztVufla
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“Yeah, we’ve got it. The aircraft is upside down and burning,” the medical helicopter pilot responded.
One of the passengers was filming from inside the Delta Toronto plane crash just after impact.pic.twitter.com/y9IU1d1LqS
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The reason behind the plane flipping is still not known but weather may have played a factor. The Meteorological Service of Canada said the airport was experiencing blowing snow and winds of 51 kilometres per hour gusting to 65 kilometres per hour. The temperature was about minus 8.6 degrees Celsius.
The audio recording from the tower at Toronto Pearson International Airport shows the flight was cleared to land around 2:10 pm local time. The tower warns the pilots of a possible air flow bump in the glide path as the plane comes into land because of a preceding aircraft in front of it.
The last major crash at Pearson was in August 2, 2005, when an Airbus A340 landing from Paris skidded off the runway and burst into flames amid stormy weather. All 309 passengers and crew aboard Air France Flight 358 survived the crash.
