Three critically wounded after plane turns at Toronto Pearson airport

A child and two adults were seriously injured after a plane crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson airport in Canada, according to emergency services.

The images shared on social networks show a plane that seems to have turned and is lying on its roof in the snow -covered asphalt. It seems to be missing at least one of its wings.

Toronto Pearson airport said the accident involved a flight from Delta Air Lines that came from Minneapolis, and that “all passengers and crew are taken into account.”

The flight had eighty people on board, 76 passengers and four crew, Delta said. Eighteen have been transported to the hospital in total, according to the airline.

Ontario’s Air Ambulance Service, ORNGE, said he had He sent three air ambulance helicopters and two land ambulances to the scene.

Patients with critical injuries include a child, a man of about 60 years and a woman in about 40 years, he added.

The president and executive director of Toronto Pearson airport, Deborah Flint, in a nightly informative session, described the response of the “textbook” of emergency personnel and attributed the help of not having loss of lives.

The Federal Aviation Authority of the United States (FAA) said that the plane involved was Delta Air Lines Flight 4819, operated by one of its subsidiaries, transfuter Air.

Delta confirmed that a CRJ900 plane was involved in the incident around 14:15 ET (19:15 GMT) on Monday afternoon.

He had 76 passengers and four crew, the airline added, and said that “its main approach is to take care of the impacted.”

Twenty -two of the passengers are Canadians, the rest are “multinationals,” said Flint.

The airport closed shortly after the incident, but the flights inside and outside Toronto Pearson resumed around 5:00 p.m. local time, said the airport.

The Canada Transport Security Board (TSB) said it was displaying a team to “collect information and evaluate the occurrence.”

Two clues will remain closed for several days for research and have been told to passengers to wait for some delays.

Toronto Pearson firefighters, Todd Aitken, said Monday night that it is early in the investigation, but they can say “the track was dry and there were no cross wind conditions.”

That contradicts previous reports of wind bursts to more than 40 mph (64 km/h) and a cross wind.

Video images shared on social networks show people out of the overturned plane, with firefighters sprinkling it with foam.

“We are in Toronto, we just landed. Our plane crashed, is the other way around,” a man said while filming a video taken from outside the overturned plane.

The video, which has not been verified by the BBC, shows passengers that airport staff helps passengers outside the plane’s doors, and some flee from the entrance of the plane.

“Most people seem to be fine. We are all going out, there is some smoke,” he can hear.

Ontario’s Prime Minister, Doug Ford, said provincial officials are in contact with the airport and local authorities and will provide any help that is needed.

The governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, said he was “grateful to the first to respond and professionals on the scene.”

After the accident, the arrival and exit tables of the airport showed dozens of delays and cancellations to the flights.

Some passengers told the BBC that they were now trapped in Toronto for several days after their flights were canceled, without any available on Monday or Tuesday.

James and Andrea Turner were in Customs, located just before the starting doors, when they were suddenly told to evacuate.

“They got rid of everyone, from custom to security, and then returned to everyone to the general area,” said James, adding that the exits was full as a result.

The couple had been to board the plane that crashed on the track. Then his flight was canceled: the third delay in his trip, after his previous trips were reprogrammed due to bad weather.

Toronto Pearson airport had been experiencing climate -related delays in recent days, with strong snowfall and frozen temperatures that hit parts of ontarium.

Two storms, one on Wednesday and another on Sunday, covered the city with a total of 30-50 cm (11.8-19.6 inches) of snow.

The American BBC partner, CBS, reports that there was light snow at the time of the accident.

Earlier on Monday, the airport warned that “cold temperatures and strong winds were moving.”

He said that an “busy day” was expected, with the airlines “to catch up after the snowstorm of this weekend that threw more than 22 cm of snow at the airport.”

The accident is at least the fourth important aviation incident in North America in the last month, including A deadly collision in the air between a passenger plane and a military helicopter Near Ronald Reagan airport in Washington DC, which killed the 67 people on board.