Toronto, most of the injured get out of the hospital.

Most of the passengers injured in the crash during the landing of a airline plane -- Delta Air Lines -- have left the hospital, the executive director of Toronto Airport said on Tuesday.

Only 2 of the 80 passengers traveling from Minneapolis to Toronto are continuing to receive medical treatment, as they miraculously survived the crash during the time of landing on Monday afternoon. Most suffered only minor injuries.

The plane stopped on the runway and sat on the runway with fire.

Deborah Flint, executive director of the Toronto Airport Authority, said 19 of the 21 injured have left the hospital, but did not provide further details about the remaining two.

Authorities said the investigation on the reasons for the incident continues. Communication between the tower and the pilot seemed to be normal, and it is not clear what went wrong when the plane was taking off.

At the time of the landing, the Toronto International Pearson Airport was snowing and blowing at speeds of wind up to 30 miles [65 km] an hour, according to Canada's Meteorological Service. The temperature was -8.5 degrees Celsius.

Peter Carlson, one of the passengers traveling to Toronto to attend a medical conference, said the seat was a very tough “”.

“Without having everything moved and found myself upside down held by security belt”, he said, the television channel CBS News.

Canadian authorities held two short press conferences Monday, but provided little detail. The plane was the Mitsubishi CRJ-900s produced by the Canadian company Bombardier.

We feel very grateful that there was no loss of life and only relatively minor injuries”, Mrs. Flint told reporters.

The executive director of the Delta company, Ed Bastian, expressed in a statement the entire company's solidarity with affected persons.

The crash is the fourth major incident in North America in recent weeks. A commercial plane and an army helicopter crashed near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., on January 29th, killing 67 people. One medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia on January 31st, killing six people on board and another person on the ground. Also, on February 6, ten people were killed by a plane crash in Alaska.

The last major crash at the airport near Pearson took place on August 2nd 2005, when a plane airbus A3400) from Paris slipped onto the runway and went into a storm. All 309 passengers and flight crew 358 of the Air France Company survived the crash. / VOA