Crews have responded to an accident on Runway 23 at Toronto Pearson International Airport involving a Delta flight. Images appear to show the aircraft flipped on the runway missing its wings and tail. The CRJ 900 operated by Endeavor Air was arriving from Minneapolis with 76 passengers and four crew. There were at least 18 injuries, three of them critical but it has been confirmed that there were no fatalities. The airport is closed. Winds were about 25 knots gusting to 40 from about 270 degrees at the time. Toronto has been dealing with back-to-back blizzards that have dropped two feet of snow. Developing story.

Toronto Pearson Airport weather conditions during the incident 

A massive snowstorm hit eastern Canada on February 17, 2025. Hours before the incident, Toronto Pearson Airport warned that while the snow had stopped coming down, high winds were moving in.  

“Today, we’re expecting a busy day in our terminals with over 130,000 travellers on board around 1,000 flights,” the airport said on X.. “Airlines are catching up after this weekend’s snowstorm that dumped over 22 cm of snow at the airport.” 

At the time flight DL4819 was landing, Air Traffic Control (ATC) reported winds of approximately 20-30 miles per hour (32-48 kilometers per hour), with gusts reaching up to 40 miles per hour (64 kilometers per hour). 

“What we can say is the runway was dry and there was no cross-wind conditions,” Airport fire chief Todd Aitken said in a press briefing. 

The Transportation Safety Board has deployed a team to the airport to investigate the incident.