On Monday, yet another airplane "incident" happened, this time at Toronto's Pearson Airport, involving a Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis/St.Paul. The airport announced the incident on its official X feed, and reported that "all passengers and crew are accounted for." Presumably, that means alive.
Toronto Pearson is aware of an incident upon landing involving a Delta Airlines plane arriving from Minneapolis. Emergency teams are responding. All passengers and crew are accounted for.
— Toronto Pearson (@TorontoPearson) February 17, 2025
While there is as yet no video of the actual event, at least one X user, apparently a passenger on the plane, has replied with a video of the Delta Airlines plane upside-down on the tarmac. The wings appear to be broken off. It's apparent from photos and videos that the tarmac is snow and ice-covered.
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— Bir Acayip Adam (@Tr19192) February 17, 2025
The Open Source Intel X account (@Osint613) released another photograph of the airliner which, again, appears to show both wings broken off and the nose wheel extended.
BREAKING 🔴
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 17, 2025
Delta Plane Crashes at Toronto Pearson Airport pic.twitter.com/8ZyhXtPKeM
While this incident is in Canada, there has been a spate of such incidents recently in the U.S., from Washington D.C. to Alaska.
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Toronto Pearson has been reporting very bad conditions at their airport over the last 24 hours, including snow and high winds.
Here's a look at part of our airfield this morning as the clean up continues from this weekend's storm.
— Toronto Pearson (@TorontoPearson) February 17, 2025
Our crews worked all weekend to keep the roughly 5 million square metres of airfield clear of snow to keep planes arriving and departing safely. pic.twitter.com/Up75V1LfLK
The snow has stopped coming down, but frigid temperatures and high winds are moving in.
— Toronto Pearson (@TorontoPearson) February 17, 2025
Today, we're expecting a busy day in our terminals with over 130,000 travellers on board around 1,000 flights.
Airlines are catching up after this weekend's snowstorm that dumped over 22 cm… pic.twitter.com/407atyju4C
Our teams are out on the apron doing another circuit as the snow continues to fall at the airport.
— Toronto Pearson (@TorontoPearson) February 16, 2025
Since yesterday, we've seen 22 cm of snow, bringing the total snowfall accumulation to 63 cm since last weekend.
We're just a few centimetres shy of the 67 cm of snow recorded… pic.twitter.com/Bb00fFoFwV
It's unclear to what extent weather conditions may have played a role in the crash in which (based on the photos and video) the airliner appears to have rolled at least once; it seems like an icy runway and high winds could have contributed, but that is as yet unknown. There will doubtless be an investigation.
Few details on this incident are available as of this writing. We will continue to monitor and bring you updates as events warrant. It does appear, at least, that in this crash, there were no deaths, which is something to be grateful for.
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