An Air Canada flight arriving from Los Angeles\u00a0veered off the runway after landing at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL) on Thursday afternoon (July 9), prompting operational delays.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The incident involved Flight AC774, which landed at approximately 4 p.m. with 156 passengers and six crew members on board.<\/p>\n
In a statement<\/a> to CTV News, Air Canada said the aircraft, a Boeing 737 Max aircraft, landed safely before leaving the paved surface while exiting the runway.<\/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 The airline said passengers and crew on the flight deplaned and headed into the terminal. According to a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0posted to X, there were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n The aircraft will now be towed to a maintenance hangar, where it will undergo a comprehensive inspection to determine the cause. \u00a0<\/p>\n Following the incident, the North Runway at YUL closed, prompting the airport to issues alerts about possible flight delays.<\/p>\n The runway was operational again shortly before 10 p.m., reports confirmed<\/a>.. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHowever, the situation has caused some delays in operations,\u201d the airport wrote on its Facebook page.<\/a> \u201cWe invite passengers to check their flight schedules before travelling to YUL”<\/p>\n Don’t\u00a0miss a single travel story: subscribe to PAX\u00a0<\/a>today! \u00a0Click here<\/a>\u00a0to follow PAX on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Air Canada flight arriving from Los Angeles\u00a0veered off the runway after landing at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-792117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792117","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=792117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}