A plane crashed at the Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, flipping over as it landed.
In total, eighteen passengers have been transported to the hospital.
Ontario Air Ambulance Service Orange said it had dispatched three air ambulance helicopters and two land ambulances to the scene.
One child and two adults were critically injured in the crash, according to emergency services and images shared on social media show a plane flipped over and lying on its roof on the snow-covered tarmac.
Toronto Pearson Airport president and CEO, Deborah Flint, in an evening briefing, called the response by emergency personnel “textbook” and credited them with helping ensure no loss of life.
Toronto Pearson Airport’s chief executive said all passengers and crew on a flight that crashed and overturned while landing in Canada have survived.
“We are very grateful there was no loss of life and relatively minor injuries,” said Deborah Flint of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority.
It appears to be missing at least one of its wings.
Toronto Pearson Airport said the crash involved a Delta Air Lines flight arriving from Minneapolis, and of the 80 people on board, 76 were passengers and four were crew.
Delta confirmed that a CRJ900 aircraft was involved in the incident at about 14:15 ET (19:15 GMT) on Monday afternoon.
Twenty-two of the passengers are Canadian, the rest are “multinational”, Ms. Flint said.
“Most people appear to be OK. We’re all getting off, there’s some smoke going on,” he can be heard saying.
