Was the pilot a DEI hire? He slammed the runway like he wanted to dig a hole in it.
Kind of looks like right side landing gear collapsed.
Too low. Too hot.
It will be important to examine the pilot's credentials carefully. Was this individual "The Best" pilot for this flight?
Let's ask Keyra Lynn Johnson. She serves as Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Social Impact Officer for Delta Air Lines.
I’ll be on a Delta plane in 51 hours unless the county insists on jury duty on March 10th.
Let’s just be thankful to God that everyone survived.
Doesn’t look like a sudden downdraft of wind either. Just consistent coming down too fast and hard.
I’m surprised that airports don’t have HD cameras all over the place.
The miracle that saved the lives of the passengers and crew was that both wings - which hold the fuel - were torn off.
Definitely pilot error. That flight crew should never sit in an aircraft again.
I suspect, that the Delta jet iced-up quickly at lower altitude.
Seems like it hit so hard I saw it visually bounce. Can’t imagine how that felt to the passengers. More than 6g’s by far I imagine. I almost wonder if that vertical hit was sharp enough to shear/bending fracture the right wing spar(s) at the root.
For the SR-20 design our chief of aircraft structures said, if they land at 6g’s they deserve to break something.
I don’t understand this story. There is something very wrong with the news here. First I saw the guy who walked off the plane and said he thought everyone survived. But he and everyone were banged up. Then I heard in a separate news report that 12 were dead. Then I heard in another report that a 13th person died. Now this morning we are back to no dead but 18 injured 3 critically injured. How can these reports be so wrong and so different?
By the way this is not a delta airlines flight. Its a delta connect flight. Delta Connect is a short haul airline that is Canadian, and flies for Delta. The airline is Canadian. The crew are Canadian. The Airport is Canadian. The airplane is built in Canada by a Japanese firm (once Canadian). The only thing American here are 40% of the passengers and the take off city of Minneapolis. Almost nothing about this crash has to do with the US.
It’s becoming more common for ticket booking sites to let you see the model of plane before buying tickets. I think it would be better if they let you know if the pilot was a DEI.
Likely windshear caused a massive increase in sinkrate is my guess.
It looked like all the force was on the right-side landing gear first which was the side that collapsed.
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.
It appears to me that a VERY hard landing collapsed the right main landing gear!
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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.
"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.