A Delta Air Lines jet attempting to land at Toronto Pearson Airport amid strong winds and drifting snow crashed and flipped over on the tarmac on Monday afternoon, finally coming to a rest with its belly up and with at least one wing shorn off.
Despite the crash landing, all 80 people aboard Flight 4819 from Minneapolis were evacuated.
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which acquired the CRJ aircraft program from Bombardier in 2020, said it would cooperate with authorities investigating the crash. A spokeswoman for Mitsubishi Heavy in Tokyo said the company’s office in Canada was working to quickly confirm information about the crash. Mitsubishi Heavy has not taken steps to ground other Bombardier CRJ900 planes, she said.
