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    WOW! This is not a good year for aviation

    Aviation incidents have been almost constantly in the news so far this year, and now Toronto is in there, too. as an hour ago a Delta plane from Minneapolis flipped on landing.
    Not tipped...flipped....the plane is entirely upside down on the tarmac!



    Authorities say 21 people are injured after a Delta Air Lines plane flipped upside down while landing amid wintry conditions Monday at Toronto Pearson International Airport.


    Fortunately, all aboard have come off the plane safely, although there are about fifteen injuries....a suprisingly low number given the circumstances.

    The cause is not yet determined but weather involvement seems a certainty.

    News reports are saying it is a small plane, but that has to be seen as a comparative term, as eighty people is not a small number of passengers..
    .


    We have had bad weather here for almost a week...snow, about three feet of it since Thursday (depending on where reports come from) and maybe another foot coming on Wednesday......and weather reports earlier today suggested wind could be hitting us at up to 60MPH

    Anyway....the damage here is mostly limited to the physical aircraft and passengers/crew mostly OK



    A take-away:
    IF YOU TAKE AWAY S FROM SIX YOU HAVE NINE



    #2
    The injuries are amazingly low, considering the plane flipping over! Were people buckled into their seats, hanging up side down?
    Ed

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      #3
      Appear wings gone completely. Folks did selfies inverted. This has to be on camera somewhere. Fuselage intact.
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        #4
        Been watching it on the news. Can't really figure out what happened . One passenger did report a hard landing . Maybe a cross wind ? But I agree with Cipher . This has to be on camera somewhere .....
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          #5
          Anytime you can walk away....
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            #6
            I’m flying to Vegas next Monday. I have never been afraid to fly. That may be starting to change.
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              #7
              There is video on the web now. According to those who think they know, it appears it landed hard and the landing gear failed.
              Shared by Aircraft Maintenance Engineer on X, formerly Twitter, the clip shows the plane, which was carrying 80 people, slide down onto the icy runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
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                #8
                I know a couple with two children, the husband and wife will never board the same plane in case something happens.
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Rob S. View Post
                  I know a couple with two children, the husband and wife will never board the same plane in case something happens.
                  This would not be unusual and could be a mandatory requirement for many corporations with their executives and, I believe, senior military personnel.also do this fairly often, although not always.


                  Update from local news /CBC says there were total twenty-one injured and nineteen have already been released from hospital.

                  Almost everyone is amazed that the plane fuselage held together
                  A take-away:
                  IF YOU TAKE AWAY S FROM SIX YOU HAVE NINE


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                    #10
                    While listening to news report on the car radio this morning I heard about how two runways are still blocked by the wreckage and the consequential and unavoidable flight delays. Then it focused on how many people are complaining about the inconvenience this near-disaster has caused them .

                    The station then brought in a so-called "aviation expert" who gave his advice on what airlines have to do for them, and how to make claims against airlines even though the delays are very clearly not caused by or in the control of any affected airline.

                    It is not unfamiliar, but still made me a bit sad to see how greatly entitled so many in our society have become.. "Hey....that was yesterday. It's over.. Now it's all about me."


                    Disclaimer:
                    : I have seen countless flights land and take off at the same airport as I worked there for more than three decades, I have dispatched hundreds of flights, and was involved in every aspect of ground handling,, passenger and cargo, but I do not consider myself an aviation expert.

                    That said, this pilot's summary of what likely happened to the flight as it landed closely matches my own views..

                    A video 44 seconds before the crash does not appear to show the flight crew making an aviation maneuver known as “a flare” — raising the jet's nose to slow it before touch down.
                    Last edited by argonsagas; Yesterday, 01:11 PM.
                    A take-away:
                    IF YOU TAKE AWAY S FROM SIX YOU HAVE NINE


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