by Ethan Lang at CBC.ca
A plane crashed and flipped on its back at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon, injuring at least 15 passengers and closing down the airport’s runways.
Departures and arrivals at Pearson resumed as of 5 p.m. ET, the airport said in an update, after they were shut down temporarily following the crash.
All 76 passengers and four crew members on the Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis are accounted for, the airport said in a post on X just before 3 p.m. ET.
Peel Regional Paramedic Services, which services Mississauga, Ont., where the airport is located just outside Toronto, told Radio-Canada that 15 passengers in total were hurt, after initially saying it believed eight people had been injured.
Delta Air Lines said in an update Monday evening that 18 people were injured, but Peel paramedics said that total includes three family members who accompanied the injured to the hospital.
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