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A Delta Air Lines jet flipped on its roof while landing Monday at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, but all 80 people on board survived and those hurt had relatively minor injuries, the airport’s chief executive said.
Newly shared video is also giving a better idea of what happened during the crash landing.
Delta said Tuesday morning that 21 injured passengers were initially taken to the hospital after the crash and 19 have so far been released.
During a news conference Tuesday, Canadian airport authorities praised the crew on board the Delta flight as heroes.
Snow blown by winds gusting to 40 mph swirled when the flight from Minneapolis carrying 76 passengers and four crew attempted to land at around 2:15 p.m. local time. Communications between the tower and pilot were normal on approach and it's not clear what went so drastically wrong when the plane touched down.
Peter Carlson, a passenger traveling to Toronto for a paramedics conference, said the landing was “very forceful.”
“All the sudden everything just kind of went sideways and then next thing I know it’s kind of a blink and I’m upside down still strapped in,” he told CBC News.
The crash was caught-on-camera in a video obtained by CNN, and shared by other outlets on social media. It appears to have been filmed in the cockpit of another plane nearby.
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