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On Monday, an airplane with Delta Air Lines, landed and turned upside down at Toronto Pearson’s international airport, the recent aviation accident with a regional jet that is operated by a US airline.
The US Federal Air Center Management said that Delta Flight 4819 at 2:45 p.m. local time at the Canadian airport “crashed”. The Bombardier CRJ 900 aircraft comes from the international airport of Minneapolis-St. Paul, A delta Hub.
“All 80 people on board were evacuated” Faa said. Delta said the plane had 76 passengers and four crew members.
Photos and videos from the scene showed the aircraft, which was on a snow -covered asphalt with the wind -flushed asphalt. Strong snow fell on the floor in the Toronto area at the Toronto area at the weekend.
Officials said the local paramedic treated 15 patients, including a child, to local hospitals. Two patients had to be transported with a flight car.
According to Lawrence Sainon, superintendent at Peel Regional Rettoomas, there were “no deaths” and none of the patients had life -threatening injuries. “All other patients are mild to accessible injuries,” he added.
The Canadian traffic authority for the transportation Safety “used a team to examine the accident”.
Delta confirmed that his flight, which was operated by the Air side agreement, “was involved in a one-aircraft accident”, and added that “our main focus on the persons concerned”.
The Mhi RJ Aviation, which acquired the CRJ series from aircraft and supportive Bombardier operations in 2020, said that it would work completely with an examination of the crash country.
The Canadian incident comes less than three weeks after a Collision with medium air Between a regional jet of American Airlines and a US military helicopter Black Hawk, 67 people killed when the trade plane to the Reagan National Airport approached Washington.
The American Airlines plane was a smaller member of the CRJ aircraft stable.
On Friday, the US federal investigators said on Friday that the Black Hawk cockpit may have received “bad data”, which means that the crew could have been examined with inaccurate height readings. It is also possible that the pilots in the helicopter, which were on a night vision glasses test flight, may not have heard critical instructions from the airline.
President Donald Trump accused Democrats and politics of diversity, justice and inclusion for the Washington collision.
