The crash of a Delta Air Lines jet on Monday afternoon exacerbated travel disruptions at Toronto Pearson International Airport, which was already juggling a slew of flight delays and cancellations caused by major back-to-back snowstorms.
Nearly 400 flights had been canceled at Pearson on Monday night, and more than 300 others were delayed at the airport, according to FlightAware, an aviation tracking website.
The airport stopped operations for over two hours after the Delta plane crashed and flipped over as it attempted to land. Operations resumed at about 5 p.m. but two of the airport’s five runways remained closed.
Toronto Pearson had expected Monday to be busy as airlines tried to catch up after a snowstorm on the weekend dumped over eight inches of snow at the airport. On Sunday, more than 300 flights were canceled and more than 500 were delayed, according to FlightAware.
That was on top of the disruptions caused by another snowstorm last week, which dropped more snow in one day at the airport than in all of January, Toronto Pearson said Thursday.
The airport said its crews had been working around the clock in recent days to clear snow from more than 1,200 acres to ensure planes could land and take off.
