Pearson plane crash: Flights resume at Toronto airport after Delta plane flips on landing [Video]

8:35 p.m.

Runway was dry at time of Delta plane landing, fire chief says

–Patrick White

GTAA Fire Chief Todd Aitken downplayed extreme weather as a factor on Monday evening.

“What we can say is that the runway was dry and there were no crosswind conditions,” he said at a press conference.

Mr. Aitken confirmed that total of 18 passengers had been taken to area hospitals.

Passengers were already escaping the smoldering aircraft when his crews arrived on the scene, he said. “This is an active investigation, it’s really early on. It’s really important we do not speculate,” he said.

8:00 p.m.

A look at the CRJ900 plane, the model involved at Pearson and in Washington, D.C. fatal crash

–Sean Silcoff

The CRJ900 plane that crashedat Toronto-Pearson International Airport comes from a family of Canadair Regional Jet, or CRJ, aircraft originally developed by Montreal’s Bombardier Inc. in the early 1990s. It is …