Horror as plane flips upside down while landing at Toronto airport

A Delta Air Lines plane has crashed, pictured upside down while attempting to land at an airport in Toronto, Canada.

"Toronto Pearson is aware of an incident upon landing involving a Delta Airlines plane arriving from Minneapolis. Emergency teams are responding. All passengers and crew are accounted for," stated a spokesperson for the airport.

Photographs from Toronto Pearson Airport depict the plane alarmingly capsized with rescue teams actively on the site. The plane was making its approach from Minneapolis to Toronto when the problems began to occur, The Mirror reports.

There were reportedly close to 80 people on board and least eight people were injured in the landing, according to CTV News.. A local journalist wrote on X: "It’s bad at the airport. Fire and police everywhere!"

Dramatic pictures and video show the jet surrounded by smoke lying upside down. It comes as multiple weather warnings were in place for 70mph winds.

Footage has emerged on X filmed by a man who appeared to be on the flight.

From behind the camera, the man can be heard saying: "We just landed. Our plane crashed, it's upside down. Everybody...most people, appear to be OK. There's some smoke going off."

But local paramedics relayed to CP24 that there might be as many as eight people wounded, although the full scope of the injuries remains unclear. Reports suggest that the aircraft was a Delta Airlines CRJ-900, serving as Delta Flight 4819 departing from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) bound for Toronto (YYZ).

According to data from Flightradar24, an Orange Air ambulance helicopter appeared to have landed at the airfield.

The Peel Regional Police have confirmed their attendance at an accident scene within Pearson Airport, later announcing their "understanding" that all passengers had been evacuated and were safe.

It comes after inflatable slides were deployed on a Delta Air Lines flight for hundreds of passengers to evacuate.

The plane was all set to leave Atlanta, Georgia in the south of the US for Minneapolis, Minnesota way up in the north Midwest on Friday. According to a Delta spokesperson, a battering of snow was wreaking havoc at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which has been known as the world's busiest airport since 1998.