A passenger plane from the US airline Delta an accident suffered on Monday when he landed at Pearson airport Torontoin Canada. After landing, the device was upside down on the track. Emergency teams reported that at least eight people were injured, one of them seriously.
A passenger is in critical condition, without danger of death, while seven other passengers suffered non -critical wounds, according to the paramedic services of the Peel region. 80 passengers were traveling on the plane, according to the Canadian Minister of Transportation, Anita Anand.
The images broadcast by television chains such as CNN They show the aircraft on the track totally belly up. Since last Thursday, Toronto has registered strong snowfalls that have caused the cancellation of numerous flights and generalized delays at Pearson airport, although this Monday the weather conditions had improved, so it is not explained how the plane came to be mouth of The track.
In a publication on social networks, the airport operator confirmed that it is a Delta Air Lines plane that came from Minneapolis. According to the first information, the first thing the rescue teams did is the count of all passengers and crew members. The Association of Flight Assistants, whose members were working on the flight, wrote in a publication on social networks that there were no fatalities.
According to Flightradar24, a flight tracking website, the flight involved was specifically the Delta 4819 of Minneapolis to Toronto. It was operated by Endeavor Air for Delta Connection. The flight number was DL4819, a CRJ900 regional plane originally built by Bombardier.
This incident occurs shortly after collision in the air on the Potomac River, in Washington, between a Black Hawk of the army and a regional American Airlines plane. That incident, which is currently being intensely investigated by the NTSB regulator for possible failures in radio communications and errors in the altimeter, have raised concern in the US and the rest of the world about the safety of regional flights, the existing controls of aircraft and operating protocols in airports.
