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A plane crashed and flipped on its back at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon, injuring at least 15 passengers and closing down the airport's runways.

All 76 passengers and four crew members on the Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis are accounted for, the airport said in a post on X just before 3 p.m. ET.

Peel Regional Paramedic Services, which services Mississauga, Ont., where the airport is located just outside Toronto, told Radio-Canada that 15 passengers in total were hurt, after initially saying it believed eight people had been injured.

Delta Air Lines said in an update Monday evening that 18 people were injured, but Peel paramedics said that total includes three family members who accompanied the injured to the hospital.

Ornge, Ontario's air ambulance service, said a child was taken to Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children with critical injuries, while a man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s were also taken to Toronto hospitals with critical injuries.

Three air ambulance helicopters and two critical care land ambulances were dispatched to the scene, Ornge said.

The airport said earlier in the day that it was expecting a busy day on Monday as airlines tried to catch up after 22 centimetres of snow fell over the weekend, causing a mass of delays and cancellations. More than 130,000 travellers were expected to board about 1,000 flights, it said in a post on Monday morning.

'The aircraft ... is upside down and burning'

Audio recording from Pearson's air traffic control tower shows that Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 was cleared to land shortly after 2 p.m. and that the tower warned the pilots of a possible air flow "bump" in the glide path from an aircraft in front of it, according to a report from The Canadian Press.

There were no further conversations with the Delta flight until the tower confirmed that a plane had crashed, with air traffic controllers quickly redirecting traffic to accommodate the crash scene.

Several minutes later, air traffic control could be heard in the recording directing a medevac helicopter for landing, noting there are people walking around the aircraft.

"Yeah, we've got it," the medevac responds. "The aircraft ... is upside down and burning."