Minutes before touching down at Toronto Pearson International Airport after relatively uneventful trip from Minneapolis, Delta Flight 4819 was cleared for landing on runway 23 under a westerly wind with gusts of about 38 miles per hour.
"All these pilots train for these conditions," Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said in an exclusive ... The plane struck the landing strip as it arrived at Toronto Airport at about 1:15 p.m ...