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00:00This is the aftermath of Delta Air Lines flight 4819 from Minneapolis, with the aircraft flipped
00:06upside down on its roof at Toronto's Pearson Airport, missing at least one of its wings.
00:12According to authorities, there were no fatalities, though scores have been left injured, to which
00:16emergency services are responding.
00:19Air traffic control had cleared the flight to land, though pilots were warned of a possible
00:23airflow bump in the glide path due to a preceding aircraft.
00:27Audio from the airport tower shows the reaction to the crash.
00:44The airport's president and CEO praised what she called a textbook response by emergency
00:48personnel and said that some airport runways will remain closed due to investigation.
00:53We stood up our emergency operations center with Delta Air Lines and representatives from
00:58fire, police, paramedics, security and our federal agency partners.
01:03Again, we are very grateful that there was no loss of life and relatively minor injuries.
01:09We are very focused on the care and the concern of the passengers and the crew.
01:15The cause of the crash is still unknown, though it's possible wintry weather conditions may
01:20have played a part, with the airport experiencing blowing snow and gusts of 65 km per hour at
01:26the time of the crash.
01:28The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has launched a probe into the incident, with
01:32questions remaining on what happened to the missing right wing.