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.
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00:00First and foremost, there was no loss of life, and this is in due part to our heroic and
00:13trained professionals, our first responders at the airport.
00:18So the facts of the matter around this event that happened at approximately 2.30 p.m. is
00:23Delta Airlines flight 4819 from Minneapolis to Toronto, operated by subsidiary Endeavor
00:30Air, was involved in a single aircraft accident upon landing at Toronto Pearson.
00:37The plane was carrying four crew and 76 passengers, among them 22 Canadians.
00:43The other passengers were multinational.
00:47Airport emergency workers mounted a textbook response, reaching the site within minutes
00:52and quickly evacuating the passengers.
00:54Seventeen injured passengers were quickly taken to local area hospitals.
00:59At this time, we do not know of any of those passengers having critical injuries.
01:05We immediately halted further arrivals and departures on our remaining three runways.
01:11Those runways were reopened at approximately 5 p.m.
01:15The other runways are remaining to serve the investigation, which we'll be carrying forward
01:20for the rest of tonight and into the next several days.