No Deaths Reported After Delta Flight Flips on Landing at Toronto Airport

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Canadian and U.S. aviation authorities are investigating the crash landing of a Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis-St.Paul to Toronto that ended with the plane upside down on the runway. All 80 people on board were evacuated but three people are reported as critically injured.

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00:00We're in Toronto. We just landed. Our plane crashed. It's upside down.

00:09Rescue underway on the runway of Toronto Pearson International Airport,

00:14after a Delta Airlines jet flipped during landing.

00:18The aircraft is upside down and burning.

00:21The flight was coming in from Minneapolis, St. Paul, with 80 people on board.

00:25At least 18 were injured, three critically.

00:29But all passengers survived.

00:31The most powerful part of today was just people.

00:36No countries, no nothing. It was just people together, helping each other.

00:40With everyone safely evacuated, airport authorities are now working to figure out what happened.

00:47This is an active investigation.

00:50It's very early on. It's really important that we do not speculate.

00:55What we can say is the runway was dry and there was no crosswind conditions.

01:01Meanwhile, inside the airport, departures and arrivals halted and delayed for hours,

01:08as waiting passengers heard the news of the crash.

01:12When I was out grabbing lunch, I hear people at the table behind me saying there was an accident at Pearson.

01:18What? And then someone at the end of the bar said, yeah, the plane flipped over. I'm like, what?

01:24The crash landing follows a weekend of delays at the Canadian airport due to high winds,

01:29frigid temperatures and a snowstorm that dumped more than 22 centimeters of snow across the runways.

01:36It's the fourth major plane crash in North America so far this year,

01:41raising questions and anxieties about the safety of air travel.

01:46Joseph Wu and Harrell Hughes for Taiwan Plus.

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