Posted on 02/18/2025 2:56:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
The flight approached the runway around 3:00 p.m. local time after departing Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport and didn’t seem to have any problems while descending. However, it appears control was lost immediately upon landing as it would turn over and spit a massive fireball.
Newly released audio from air traffic control has revealed that the pilots were informed of strong winds blowing up to 38 mph and a “slight bump.”
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Warned that Trump and Musk were sending out mind waves to try to flip the plane over ?
Didn't Earn It.
“”Warned that Trump and Musk were sending out mind waves to try to flip the plane over?””
Well, the Drive-By Media have tried to blame most everything on President Trump.
Next thing you know, the Drive-By Media will suggest John McClain should have been out on the runway, waving torches, but DOGE cut McClain’s salary.
DOGE causes Climate Change
Now that the inevitable phone vids have come out it’s fairly straightforward: the kid landed hard on the right gear and collapsed it. No flare, he just did a carrier landing. Without the attendant gear stress capability that is built into carrier based aircraft.
Gear collapsed, wing hit the runway, broke off, big fire but...it got left behind as the a/c rolled over. So fuselage didn’t burn, and happily didn’t break apart. Nice clean separation at the wing root.
Why did that happen? Lotta reasons, pilot story and FDR will illuminate. He may have gotten hit by wind shear on a gusty day like that, ended up slower then he planned. That’s why all the company FM’s recommend various additional speeds to add to the nominal bug speed value for a gusty day approach.
But there was no flare evident. The FMS was undoubtedly calling the altitude and probably a rate warning. But again, that will all come out with the FDR and CVR readouts.
The “bump” the controller was referring to is just an expected possible transit through the wake of the preceding aircraft. In the US the standard phraseology is “Caution wake turbulence” but Canada and that controller in particular may not require it.
It’s just an f-up with Wx related contributing factors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOYiQG43v64
Spot on. Earlier reports said 1100 fpm descent and just under 130 KIAS.
That’s got hard landing written all over it.
And the pilot, identified as Latonisha Jefferson was quoted as saying this crash was not due to DEI policies but blamed Trump for the winds.
Seriously?
If ever there would be a reason to get OFF a plane before take off, that would be it.
“dentified as Latonisha Jefferson”
Seriously?
If ever there would be a reason to get OFF a plane before take off, that would be it”
Ummm no, but I have a bridge to sell you, if not that some prime land in the Everglades.
This happened at the “YYZ” that Rush made famous.
The slight bump was a reference to possible wake turbulence of a jet that went ahead of the crash plane. However I heard a pilot experienced in the crash plane model say the type that took off before wasn’t the t likely to have produced any problematic turbulence.
No just FRs haters
back in the 80’s I used to guess if the pilot was ex air force or ex navy by the landing. Navy pilots came in near the end of the runway, dropped quickly, and took the first exit. air force guys came in hot and used all the runway.
Nah, at Delta young white men are exiled to Endeavour Air flights like this for a decade or more, while the Latonishas are put in the right seat of an A321 straight out of flight school... strictly for social justice purposes, of course. :)
Looked to me like a typical cross wind landing bringing one wheel down, hit the rudder and then the next wheel. But perhaps some wind sheer tossed in so he pranged on the ice.
At first I thought it was a rate of decent issue, but further review reveals the left wing rise and the right wing dip.
ah...Defer to post #7...
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