Footage captured the harrowing moment a Delta passenger jet crash-landed and flipped upside down on a Toronto runway Monday.
Video captured by a bystander shows the Delta-Endeavor Air CRJ-900 from Minneapolis making a routine approach to the snowy Toronto Pearson International Airport runway with its landing gear down.
According to the video, as the plane touched down it appeared to bounce slightly then suddenly leaned right, prompting the jet to start flipping, ripping both wings off in a fiery explosion as it spun upside down to a stop, with the fuselage appearing to remain entirely intact.
Miraculously, despite 80 people being aboard – 76 passengers and four crew members – the crash left zero fatalities, though three people suffered critical but non-life threatening injuries.
Embed from Getty ImagesFootage shows passengers safely evacuating the jet following the crash.
“We hit the ground and we were sideways, and then we were hanging upside down like bats,” one passenger told ABC News.
Another passenger described: “The one minute you’re landing and kind of waiting to see your friends and your people and the next minute you’re physically upside down and just really turned around.”
Without evidence and despite the crash occurring in Canadian airspace, an NBC News correspondent on Monday blamed the Trump administration, claiming the accident would “yet again raise the concern about FAA staffing — air traffic control staffing” due to Trump’s reforms to the agency.
“And yet, as you know, there has been this talk about maybe staff cuts at the FAA as a part of President Trump’s effort to trim down the federal workforce. And yet, as you also know, the FAA has been complaining for years that they are understaffed in critical job positions, especially air traffic control,” said NBC aviation reporter Tom Costello.
Incredibly, Costello blamed Trump despite noting that the flight was being monitored by “a Canadian air traffic control tower and this is under Canadian authority once it crosses the border.”
The National Transportation Safety Board has sent a team to assist the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which is heading the investigation.
The crash follows several deadly aviation incidents in recent weeks that have rattled air travelers, including a mid-air collision between a Black Hawk military helicopter and a passenger jet in Washington, DC, last month that left 67 dead, in addition to a medevac plane crash in Philadelphia, Pa., that killed everyone aboard and one person on the ground.
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