Canadian and U.S. aviation authorities are investigating the crash landing of a Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis-St.Paul to Toronto that ended with the plane upside down on the runway. All 80 people on board were evacuated but three people are reported as critically injured.
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00:00We're in Toronto. We just landed. Our plane crashed. It's upside down.
00:09Rescue underway on the runway of Toronto Pearson International Airport,
00:14after a Delta Airlines jet flipped during landing.
00:18The aircraft is upside down and burning.
00:21The flight was coming in from Minneapolis, St. Paul, with 80 people on board.
00:25At least 18 were injured, three critically.
00:29But all passengers survived.
00:31The most powerful part of today was just people.
00:36No countries, no nothing. It was just people together, helping each other.
00:40With everyone safely evacuated, airport authorities are now working to figure out what happened.
00:47This is an active investigation.
00:50It's very early on. It's really important that we do not speculate.
00:55What we can say is the runway was dry and there was no crosswind conditions.
01:01Meanwhile, inside the airport, departures and arrivals halted and delayed for hours,
01:08as waiting passengers heard the news of the crash.
01:12When I was out grabbing lunch, I hear people at the table behind me saying there was an accident at Pearson.
01:18What? And then someone at the end of the bar said, yeah, the plane flipped over. I'm like, what?
01:24The crash landing follows a weekend of delays at the Canadian airport due to high winds,
01:29frigid temperatures and a snowstorm that dumped more than 22 centimeters of snow across the runways.
01:36It's the fourth major plane crash in North America so far this year,
01:41raising questions and anxieties about the safety of air travel.
01:46Joseph Wu and Harrell Hughes for Taiwan Plus.