“Delta Connection Flight 4819"
Delta Connection Flight 4819 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport that crashed on landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport on February 17, 2025. The flight was operated using a CRJ900 aircraft by Endeavor Air, a wholly owned regional subsidiary of Delta Air Lines. It was on a routine scheduled flight from Minneapolis–Saint Paul to Toronto when it crashed while landing.The flight had 80 people on board including 76 passengers and 4 crew members. All passengers and crew were accounted for, with 18 injuries being reported.
After the crash, the aircraft was observed upside down on the runway.[7][8][9] Ice was reported to possibly be present on the runway, and winds out of the west[10] with wind speeds of 32 mph (51 km/h; 28 kn) with gusts to 40 mph (64 km/h; 35 kn) were reported before the plane landed.
Background
The aircraft involved was a 15-year-old Bombardier CRJ900LR with the tail number N932XJ[12] and fleet number 932.
The CRJ900LR is a modified sub-variant of the CRJ900 series regional jets produced by Bombardier, designed for longer range flights due to its higher maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) as compared to the base variant of the CRJ900, a jet commonly used to operate short to medium-haul regional flight. This jet had been configured with a seating capacity for up to 76 passengers. The variant has a maximum range of 1,784 miles (2,871 kilometres), a wingspan of 81 feet, 7 inches (24.9 m) and a length of 118 feet 11 inches (36 m) with a cabin cross-section length of 84 inches (2.13 m). The aircraft was fitted with two General Electric CF34-8C5 turbofan engines.
It was manufactured and first entered commercial service with regional operator Mesaba Airlines in September 2008, operating for Northwest Airlink, until October of the same year when it began operating for Delta Connection. The aircraft was later transferred to Pinnacle Airlines following the merger of Mesaba Airlines and Pinnacle Airlines in 2012 and retained when the company was renamed to Endeavor Air in 2013.
Crash
The aircraft crashed upon landing at the threshold of Runway 23 at approximately 2:15 p.m. EST. A passenger on the plane posted a video to social media showing the evacuation process and the overturned plane. At the time of the crash, snow was present on the runway following a winter storm the previous weekend, while winds of 32 mph (51 km/h; 28 kn) with gusts of to 40 mph (64 km/h; 35 kn) and a temperature of about 16.5 °F (−8.6 °C) were present at the airport. Prior to the crash, air traffic controllers warned the pilots of a possible air flow bump in the glide path during landing.
The video shows the inverted plane with its starboard wing missing and vertical fin torn off. Smoke was seen from the fuselage, prompting the deployment of firefighting services. The crash was the second hull loss involving a CRJ700 series aircraft in 2025, following the 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision near Washington Reagan National Airport in late January.
According to CEO of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority and Toronto Pearson International president Deborah Flint at a press conference about the crash, 17 people were injured after the crash and were transported to hospitals, but the airport’s fire chief later confirmed one more passenger was transported to the hospital with injuries. Officials said that at least one child and two adults, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s, were reportedly in critical condition; no injuries were life-threatening. Three of the injured were transported to hospitals aboard an air ambulance.
Investigation
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada began an investigation, while the US National Transportation Safety Board said it would send investigators to assist.
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