Posted on 03/21/2025 2:00:51 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina
Every passengers worst nightmare is a plane crash, especially in the final moments of a flight. At Toronto's Lester B Pearson airport, a CRJ crashed and flipped upside down during a routine landing. We have all been waiting for answers. Was the plane broken? Were the pilots at fault? Were there other external factors? The preliminary report finally sheds some light on some of these questions.
A too rapid rate of descent broke the right main gear off and the right wing dug in causing the flip.
Everyone onboard should buy a lottery ticket and also send a thank you note to the CRJ manufacturer..
Seems like she chopped the throttles too soon, failed to maintain penetration above V-Ref, didn’t flair and pounded it on the runway. The captain should have been flying in that weather, she was too green. Lucky they didn’t have a far worse outcome, and her career is over.
Inexperienced woman pilot.
Another DEI hire…
So this was a co pilot landing, in that weather?
If yes, then the PIC bears responsibility too for sure.
Let's have a show of hands from those people who prefer to have their plane crashes at the beginning of their flight!
Thank you. That’s the way I saw it too.
Was the PIC a man? Probably too concerned with being accused of sexism to take control.
I typically prefer the crash (if knowing it is inevitable prior to boarding the plane) occur below 10 mph before 10 seconds in to journey. Always have.
PIC=Pilot in Command
i prefer late in the flight
i do not want to be cheated out of my in-flight meal
Not enough hours to be certified to fly passengers = inexperienced (could have happened if inexperienced man flying).
Was flying anyway because received a waiver = woman (man would not have received a waiver - airline ADVERTISES all-female crews with banner “This flight is un MANned”).
The YouTube I watched, the narrator came just a millimeter (it’s Canada after all) short of saying what everyone has been thinking.
Haha - priorities!
The PIC was primarily a simulator pilot. His total hours over decades was something like 3,000,
The waiver was based on attending an approved aeronautical school. Men can get that waiver too.
In-flight cracker and water, lately.
Wow...
Those conditions aren't consider "weather" for Toronto.
She was the PIC, the "sole manipulator of the controls", because she needed to build her hours for the airline.
The senior pilot would log his time as Second-In-Command (SIC) because he didn't need the hours. He would bear would bear no responsibility.
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) § 91.3 Responsibility and authority of the pilot in command.
(a) The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft.
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