All 80 passengers survived after a jet flipped onto its back after a fiery crash--landing yesterday (Feb. 18, 2025) at Toronto's Pearson Airport, the USA Today website reports. Delta Flight 4819 took off in Minneapolis at 11:47 a.m. local time and flew for an hour and 29 minutes before trying to land in Toronto around 2:15 p.m. local time.
The plane can be seen coming for a landing at a snowy airport before impacting, igniting , and rolling onto its starboard side.
According to Flight Radar 24, an airport weather report indicated a gusting crosswind and blowing snow at the time of the accident. "Winds were out of the west at 270 degrees at 28 knots , gusting to 35 knots. Visibility was 6 miles with a runway visual range of 3,000 -- 6,000 feet with an improving trend.
Hassan Shahidi, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation , praised first responders at the airport. "They were immediately dousing the aircraft with fire--resistant foam," he said. "The Toronto airport is known for being on top of these emergency--type situations."
Najm Meshkati, professor of engineering and expert of aviation safety at the University of Southern California, told USA Today the speedy evacuation led by the cabin crew may have saved lives . Videos show passengers exiting the emergency doors as firefighters coated the flaming aircraft in foam.
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