An Air Canada flight veered off the runway after landing at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on Thursday afternoon, causing operational delays at the airport.<\/p>\n
In a statement to CTV News, Air Canada said there are no injuries reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cFlight AC774 arriving from LAX on July 9, 2026 landed normally at Montreal International Airport, then sustained a runway excursion and travelled through the grass when exiting the main runway,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n
Air Canada says there were 156 passengers and six crew aboard the flight. The incident occurred at approximately 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
The airline confirmed at 7:37 p.m. on social media platform X that all passengers and crew had been deplaned and are in the terminal.<\/p>\n
Investigations launched <\/p>\n
Air Canada says the aircraft will be towed to the hangar for a full inspection. <\/p>\n
They will investigate this incident and work with relevant authorities to determine the cause, the airline says.<\/p>\n
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada confirmed to CTV News that they have opened an investigation into the incident. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have deployed investigators to the scene to gather information and assess the accident,\u201d a spokesperson said in an email to CTV News.<\/p>\n
Operational delays at Montreal airport<\/p>\n
Following the incident, the emergency coordination centre at the airport was activated, resulting in a runway closure, a spokesperson for the Montreal airport said in an email to CTV News.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo facilitate the safe evacuation of passengers, the North Runway has been temporarily closed, which may result in operational delays,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPassengers are encouraged to check the status of their flights before travelling to YUL.\u201d<\/p>\n
As of 9:55 p.m., the runway had reopened after being closed while the Transportation Safety Board of Canada conducted its investigation, the spokesperson confirmed in an email to CTV News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Air Canada flight veered off the runway after landing at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[712,45,49,48],"class_list":["post-791896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-apple-news","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}