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A Delta Air Lines plane crash-landed and flipped upside-down at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, leaving three passengers— including a child— critically injured. The incident occurred just before 3 p.m. after the aircraft took off from Minneapolis earlier in the day. Images from the scene show the plane severely damaged, with emergency crews rushing to assist passengers.

BREAKING- Toronto had a Delta flight flipped upside down. I got these photos from a friend on the plane. He’s okay. Minnesota to Toronto. pic.twitter.com/DeSoYAlsVo

— Kellie Meyer (@KellieMeyerNews) February 17, 2025

Key Details:

• The flight, identified as Delta Flight 4819, departed from Minneapolis at 11:47 a.m. before crash-landing in Toronto.
• At least eight people were reported injured, with three in critical condition, including a child and a man in his 60s.
• The aircraft, a Bombardier CRJ-900LR, was flipped upside-down on the runway, with one wing crumpled and the tail section partially sheared off.

Diving Deeper:

Emergency responders rushed to Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon after Delta Flight 4819 suffered a crash landing, flipping upside-down on the snowy runway. Images from the scene depict a harrowing sight— the overturned aircraft smoldering, with dazed passengers evacuating.

According to CP24 News, eight people sustained injuries in the crash, three of whom were transported to separate hospitals in critical condition, including a pediatric patient. The Peel Regional Police confirmed that while most passengers made it out unharmed, authorities remained on-site to assess the full extent of the injuries and damage.

Passenger John Nelson captured the immediate aftermath on video, posting to Facebook: “We’re in Toronto. We just landed. Our plane crashed, it’s upside-down. Fire department is on site. Most people appear to be OK. We’re all getting off.” The footage shows emergency personnel navigating the snowy conditions to reach the aircraft and assist those on board.

Toronto Pearson officials confirmed on X (formerly Twitter) that all passengers and crew were accounted for, while the Association of Flight Attendants union stated that no fatalities had been reported. However, airport operations were briefly suspended in the wake of the incident, with arrivals and departures temporarily halted.

The crash comes after a weekend winter storm dumped nearly nine inches of snow on Toronto, prompting airport crews to work overnight to clear runways. Investigators will now seek to determine whether weather conditions or mechanical failure played a role in the crash. This marks the most serious commercial aviation incident since the January 29 collision at Ronald Reagan National Airport involving an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines flight.

Kyle Bailey on “Hannity” discussing Philly plane crash [Screenshot/Fox News/”Hannity”]

From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Hailey Gomez

Former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Safety Team representative Kyle Bailey said Friday evening on Fox News that the jet caught on camera crashing in northeastern Philadelphia appeared “100% out of control.”

Around 6:30 p.m. local time, videos surfaced showing a small jet crashing into a neighborhood in northeastern Philadelphia, with images and footage depicting the plane erupting into a fireball. The FAA confirmed the crash in a statement, identifying the aircraft as a Learjet 55 that had been departing from northeastern Philadelphia Airport en route to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri.

On “Hannity,” Fox’s Sean Hannity began discussing the Learjet 55, adding that his pilot friends had described the aircraft as “a sports car in the air.” He then asked Bailey if this type of jet is different from the “average commuter jet.”

“That’s exactly right, Sean. You have to be ahead of that airplane at all times, or it will get control of you. That plane was doing in excess of 10,000 feet per minute rate of descent, and it didn’t even make it to 2,000 feet after takeoff,” Bailey said. “Right after takeoff, the controller was asking, calling for the airplane to respond. There was no response by the flight crew. There was no communication.”

“The controller was a little bit stumped in trying to make contact with the airplane, and that tells me that the pilot completely was consumed with whatever was going on, and from that rate of descent and from that airplane coming down like a missile, it looked like it could have potentially been at full power,” Bailey added. “It was just coming down there at a rate that really was unbelievable.”

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Bailey went on to say that the explosion was likely massive due to the “large quantity of jet fuel,” adding that he believed there was probably nothing the pilot “could have done” to prevent the incident.

“So from taking off for a flight of the duration of where it was going, that probably was very closely, fully loaded with fuel. So that huge fireball that we saw is the result of a large quantity of jet fuel, and that big, almost like — for lack of a better term — like a nuclear-like explosion is probably the jet fuel reflecting off that cloud base,” Bailey said.

“That’s why it looks a little bit strange, but there is no doubt that the plane was 100% out of control, and there was probably nothing that pilot could have done,” Bailey added. “Not even a 10-second mayday came out of that radio back to the control tower.”

The plane was reportedly on a medical assignment with four crew members and two passengers aboard, according to 6ABC. During a press conference around 8:30 p.m., Democratic Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker could not provide a fatality count. She instead asked residents “for prayers.”

The crash comes just days after a commercial plane collided with a military helicopter near Washington Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening, killing all involved.

The incident is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board and FAA.