Posted on 08/02/2005 1:28:25 PM PDT by mitchbert
Breaking News from CFRB 1010AM News Radio - Toronto
Airliner on fire on the ground at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ). Unclear as to cause. Announcers asking for updates from motorists in the region on HWY 401. Report says great deal of smoke. I have to go into a meeting shortly but I'll listen for updates as long as I can.
Eyewitness:
Reports aircraft on approach, landing, lightining in area, hit the runway, engines sounded as though they reversed, and the aircraft went towards the end of runway, into a ditch and broke in half.
Witness on CNN says the plane broke in half when it went into the ravine.
Eyewitness: plane on landing looked too high and suddenly dropped dramatically, bursting tires; people with injuries began to emerge from plane as soon as it came to stop
CP24 (CHUM-TV)
Eyewitness saying lighting strike on runway.
Who knows for sure.
>>>This may be a planned distraction to draw attention away from the issue of whether Karl Rove slipped some steriods into Rafael Palmiero's drink.
Nice tinfoil hat theory...
But we all know it's Bush's fault. (/sarcasm)
Euro News saying survivors walking dazed and confused along highway.
I've heard crazier theories over on the Holloway threads!
Thanks for the synopsis/details....Just heard about it on radio as I drove into driveway.
60 is a lot fewer than the "all" reported earlier. Hope the earlier report is correct, but in looking at those pictures I find it almost impossible to imagine that everyone escaped alive.
CTV: "Passengers were actually on Highway 401, where motorists stopped to help..."
Aircraft broke completely in half per witnesses.
Air France - AFR 358
Departed - Paris Charles-de-Gaulle Aug 02 01:15 PM "Landed" - Toronto Aug 02 04:07 PM
73° F, mostly cloudy skies, Light rain with thunder.
LOL
Seems like every outlet has a different version!
Microburst?
Guy on news feed said the plane landed first and was then struck by lightening.
CTV: One witness says that lightning actually struck the runway.
I think the bush's in the ravine helped to cusion the shock of the crash
Still visible flames, black, white/gray smoke, and secondary fuel explosions going off.
Arg...media
Nos such thing as 24-west.
Either 24, 24L or 24R.
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