Posted on 02/18/2025 6:13:51 AM PST by lowbridge
BREAKING: New clearest footage showing the crash moment of Delta Air Lines plane at Toronto Airport. All passengers survived
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Impact Officer for Delta Air Lines!
I don’t think one should use the word impact when describing their job at an airline!!
The flight crew:
Sum Ting Wong
Wi Tu Lo
Ho Lee Fuk
Bang Ding Ow
Another CRJ jet. The news has said nothing about the flight crew or makeup. We will see.
Yeah, what's up with that? Some say Jesus rose from the dead and still others say soldiers paid people to say his body was stolen.
Indeed, how can this be? Life is so hard!
Try landing at Ketchikan and Sitka Alaska! First this is you slam onto the runway and the next thing is the pilot dynamites the brakes and reverse thrusters so hard your head will be touching the seat in front of you!
“”Almost nothing about this crash has to do with the US.””
I hope you’re prepared to go all day long here without a comment on your post. WHY everyone hasn’t heard this already is mind boggling...but given a chance to rant about airline hiring practices, DEI et., and it won’t be passed up.
It appears to me that a VERY hard landing collapsed the right main landing gear!
....if I that am not mistaken, even though that aircraft’s registration number was very obscured, it began with the letter “N” which means it was registered in the US..aircraft registered in Canada begin with the letter “C” I believe...
Spokesman just said crosswinds were not present.
Canadian Ping List.
I’ll send out something connected to the elections soon, but this video seemed too good to pass up. The link below has it embedded in a Canadian source with more context than Twitter.
Was the pilot a DEI hire? He slammed the runway like he wanted to dig a hole in it.
I see a pilot who made an appropriate approach, carrying some extra power due to the gusting perhaps cross winds. I suspect his “hard landing” was due to the sudden loss of lift while at very low altitude resulting in an acute drop to the runway. Likely heard off the landing gear and resultant roll and flip. Miraculously there were no fatalities. I suspect the pilots will be vindicated after the investigation.
But but but it’s STILL Trump’s fault! I heard it on the news.....
Something else I just noticed. The plane was nearly level. They’re supposed to be nose angled up.
Doesn’t look like pilot flared.
I suspect the pilot realized he was coming fast and in the back of his mind the runway conditions were not optimum for stopping, and figured he had to get his wheels down as soon as possible so he could start braking and using the thrust reversers as early as possible on the runway, so he just went straight down to the runway instead of feathering the landing.
I suspect he encountered a wind shear at very low altitude and lost lift as a result with no time to correct or add power to execute a go around. He was likely carrying extra speed (10-12 knots) due to the gusty conditions,. I would not be quick to implicate the pilots until there is a full investigation. If you lose lift at that low altitude there isn’t much you can do but hang on !!!
I was just looking at this clip.
Sure looks like the front wheel wasn’t square with the plane on landing. Looks like the plane landing caused the front wheel to start to collapse, throwing the plane off balance.
"In the flare, the nose of the plane is raised, slowing the descent rate and therefore creating a softer touchdown, and the proper attitude is set for touchdown." - Google
This might be a result of some type of wind phenomenon, fighting against the pilot's will, or it could just be pilot error. Planes land in this kind of weather all the time. My way too early opinion is pilot error.
I thought the thinking was that somehow turbulent winds flipped the plane over. Now we see that it was a landing that went horribly wrong. Thank God no one was killed, but wow, that is scary to watch.
“Altimeter set incorrectly?”
That’s what I was wondering.
Is there someone with a pilot’s license who can say if this happens sometimes?
Single / Multi Instrument/Commercial pilot here. As the approach continued it looked like he was stable albeit a little faster than normal (Black Boxes will confirm) due to the crosswinds and gusty conditions. I suspect the investigation will show a sudden loss of headwind while on very short final with inadequate altitude to make any correction such as adding power and executing a go-around. They may question the decision to begin the approach given the wind conditions but I’m not privy to what the pilot knew about that. I suspect the reported winds were within landing parameters UNTIL the wind shear resulted in sudden drop of wind coming across the wings and acute loss of altitude and hard landing. Would not criticize until the full investigation is complete.
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