Delta Airways Airplane Crashes at Toronto Airport, Flips Upside Down

Scary incident on Delta Air Strains … a aircraft crashed and flipped the wrong way up after touchdown Monday afternoon.

Footage from Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport exhibits the fuselage flipped over on a snowy runway … with emergency crews responding.

Smoke was seen billowing from the fuselage and the outside of the Delta industrial jet was burned … and it appeared the wings and tail have been damaged.

The airport says the incident occurred Monday at about 2:15 PM ET when a Delta flight from Minneapolis was touchdown.

The airfield is being cleared of ice and snow after a weekend storm dumped over 8 inches of snow on the airport, and it seems to be just like the climate might have performed a task right here.

Happily, Toronto Pearson says “all passengers and crew are accounted for.” Delta studies the flight was carrying 80 individuals — 76 passengers and 4 crew members. The airline later up to date not less than 18 passengers have been injured. The flipped aircraft was the one plane concerned, the airline confirmed.

Photographs seem to indicate passengers being loaded off the flipped aircraft … strolling out of the overturned cabin door.

One individual tweeted out video from the scene of the incident, showing shocked however comfortable to be alive.

There’s been a slew of aircraft crashes just lately in North America, together with industrial flights like this one.