By Alison Sider, Alyssa Lukpat and Vipal Monga

A Delta Air Lines regional plane crashed while landing Monday afternoon at Toronto Pearson International Airport, resulting in the evacuation of 80 passengers and crew, U.S. and Canadian authorities said.

Flight 4819, which took off from Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, appeared upside down in pictures posted to social media from the airport. Delta and local police said several people with injuries were taken to local hospitals. Delta described the crash as a single-aircraft accident.

The plane, a Bombardier CRJ-900, crash-landed around 2:45 p.m. local time, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Toronto Pearson closed the airport after the incident and flights heading there are grounded, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

A string of plane crashes in recent weeks have stirred fear among fliers and the aviation community. A collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a military helicopter near Washington, D.C. last month left no survivors. The American Airlines jet, a Bombardier CRJ-700, was a smaller version of the plane involved in the Toronto crash. Two days after the collision, a medical transport jet crashed in a fiery explosion near a mall in northeast Philadelphia, killing seven. The wreckage of a passenger plane carrying 10 people was found in Alaska earlier this month.

Monday's crash was the first major incident at Toronto Pearson since 2005, when an Air France plane overran the runway and had no casualties.

Toronto airport officials said on social media earlier Monday that they were working to clear snow from the airfield after a storm and it anticipated high winds. Monday afternoon, the airport said that emergency teams were responding to the incident and that "all passengers and crew are accounted for."

Delta's regional subsidiary, Minneapolis-based Endeavor Air, operated Flight 4819, and the company said it was aware of reports of an incident. "We are working to confirm any details and will share the most current information on news.delta.com as soon as it becomes available," the airline said.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said it was assisting Canada's Transportation Safety Board with the investigation into the crash. Canada's Transportation Safety Board didn't return a request for comment.

Write to Alison Sider at alison.sider@wsj.com, Alyssa Lukpat at alyssa.lukpat@wsj.com and Vipal Monga at vipal.monga@wsj.com

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February 17, 2025 17:17 ET (22:17 GMT)

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