This picture, taken from freelance footage, shows the plane just before it erupted into flames.
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.
How are you going to get home?
According to the CBC, all of Toronto is in gridlock.
Which brings up the question of what it would be like if there were a terrorist attack.....?
Have they finally settled that? It breaks my heart to see my last duty station lying in disrepair.
LOL. True dat, Boo.
I imagine these airports are now surrounded by so much other stuff that they will not be able to expand that buffer zone.
Like I just posted above, some airports have wanted to relocate but no one wants them in another neighborhood. When Denver put in their new airport, which was quite a way outside of town, everyone complained about the time it took to drive there. Can't win either way I guess.
I guess the main question here besides the buffer zone especially at the end of runway is whether they should have landed in the weather that was reported as dreadful.
I've never been on a 747...thanks for the warning.
I don't like wings to flex the way the Airbus wings flex/shudder/shimmy.
Maybe my distrust of some planes has something to do with this accident which happened a mile from my house when I was a young teenager.
We thought the Russians had blown up/bombed Argonne National Labs. Many of the volunteer fireman in my town later died, fairly young, of heart attacks.
I've liked flying enough to have worked for UAL (reservations) for a year.
Thats interesting, but my instructor did yours one better. He always said " Every Pilot that took off has always landed! but some of them haven't taken off again." Just a thought,but flying is very serious and very unforgiving.
We had discussed that in conjunction with some other news story a while back here. I'm pinging who I thought told me that was settled.
Pinging for news on El Toro Marine Base decision. Shopping mall vs Airport??
i don't think airfrance or lufthansa EITHER have any boeings left... i suspect the last ones they had were 747 and went from there to airbus...
Exit doors wide open. It is amazing that that many people were able to get out before the fire engulfed the fuslage. It makes me feel better about surviving such a crash.
You mean there was a time before Viking Kitties?
"...Who pissed in your Wheaties this morning?"
Apparently, me??
LOL
What really gets me is people that move into a neighborhood with an airport in it, and then complain about the noise.
LOL! That's what my husband said on the way home...I said it was amazing if everyone managed to get out of that plane OK, and he said running away is what the french do best.
Yes, but only because they weren't known as Viking Kitties back then :-)
They weren't even a gleam in their parents eyes.
I Miss the Air Shows from El Toro.
My wife grew up in El Toro, (now Lake Forest), and when I was down at Pendleton, I used to love parking on the nearby roads in Irvine, before all the buildings went up, and watching the jets take off. (80's)
When the Air Shows were in town, the Blue's would fly right over her house more than a few times.
Now I take my kids to Miramar for the same fix.
They should have closed John Wayne, built up El Toro for more capacity, and all would have been good. But Property values in that area of Orange County seem to take precedence for the developers and the eco-nuts.
He refused to even suggest it was a miracle there were no fatalities.
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