TORONTO — Two passengers remained hospitalized following Monday’s crash landing of a Delta Air Lines jet that flipped over on a Toronto airport runway upon landing, officials said during a news briefing Tuesday.

Despite initial reports of critical injuries, none of the 21 passengers who were taken to the hospital, including the two who remain under care, experienced life-threatening medical issues, officials said.

What You Need To Know

  • Two passengers remained hospitalized following Monday’s crash landing of a Delta Airlines jet that flipped over on a Toronto airport runway upon landing, officials said during a news briefing Tuesday

  • None of the injuries suffered by the 21 passengers who were taken to the hospital, including the two who remain under care, are life threatening, officials said

  • The majority of injuries stemmed from back sprains, head injuries and anxiety, as well as headaches, nausea and vomiting due to fuel exposure following the crash, according to Cory Tkatch, divisional commander with Peel Regional Paramedic Services

  • The crash is currently being investigated by the National Transportation Board of Canada and U.S. Federal Aviation Administration 

The majority of injuries stemmed from back sprains, head injuries and anxiety, as well as headaches, nausea and vomiting due to fuel exposure following the crash, according to Cory Tkatch, divisional commander with Peel Regional Paramedic Services.

Some videos taken from inside the plane showed passengers dangling from their seatbelts.

The Delta plane operated by the subsidiary Endeavor Air was carrying 76 passengers and four crew members, 22 of whom were Canadian, according to Toronto Pearson International Airport CEO Deborah Flint.

She praised the flight attendants, flight crew and airport emergency workers and responders for mounting “a textbook response, reaching the site within minutes and quickly evacuating passengers.”

Flint declined to speculate on the cause of the crash, including runway conditions, saying it is currently being investigated by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada with help from the United States Federal Aviation Administration. The crashed plane will remain on the runway for the next 48 hours as investigators try to determine the cause.

Canada’s transportation board is expected to issue a statement with more information about its findings Tuesday afternoon.

Flint said the airport had experienced extreme weather conditions in the days leading up to the crash, with two snowstorms that dropped nearly 20 inches of snow in the area from Thursday through Sunday.

“That’s not typical,” she said. “It’s more snow in that time window than we received in all of last winter.”

She said there were numerous flight cancellations at the airport resulting from the snowstorms between Thursday and Sunday, but Monday, the day of the crash, was clear.  Flint said it was an operational recovery day for the airport, with 1,006 scheduled flights, 462 of which were canceled after the crash.