Disaster Delta flight from Minneapolis crash lands at Toronto Pearson airport - All passenger and crew accounted for - no known fatalities

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Delta Air Lines CRJ900 crash landed at Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday.

The flight, from Minneapolis-St. Paul, was listed as Endeavor 4819, a CRJ-900 (N932XJ). It appears to have landed upside down.

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The identity of the pilot has been revealed. It is unknown how he managed to obtain his pilot's license or how he got to work in Canadian airlines as government reports seem to have mentions of an abandoned airstrip with most of the data redacted by federal officials and no further aviation career history on record.
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On the off chance the pilot had to navigate something else going wrong and land the plane flipped, he deserves a medal. Don’t know how that would happen but I’m not a pilot. Very curious to find out what the cause was.

It’s easy to point to DEI, but when these things happen it’s worth considering if the pilot might’ve avoided an even worse outcome. Those passengers will be traumatized but it beats being dead.
 
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Haloperidol said:
On the off chance the pilot had to navigate something else going wrong and land the plane flipped, he deserves a medal. Don’t know how that would happen but I’m not a pilot. Very curious to find out what the cause was.
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High crosswinds and possibly light on fuel which would make the crosswinds worse. That's my bet.
 
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indomitable snowman said:
Aren't the wheels supposed to be on the ground and not the sky?
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Anyway I'm sure Delta has many qualified pilots....
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I don't think people realize how bad aviation was under the DEI initiatives. There was a pilot shortage a few years ago and in response the airlines sponsored a lot of "cadet" programs where they would guarantee a job once you hit your 1500 hours of flight time + certificates. The thing about these programs were that they were de facto open only for minorities and women. The actual aviation nerds had a hard time gaining acceptance to them.

I've heard the interviews were basically group interviews were they asked dumb HR stuff like "name a time you overcame the odds" rather than the focus on traditional battery of tests for flight aptitude (look these up, they are quite fun ). I even read about people being told their spot was given away a few weeks before starting to give space for minority and female candidates.
 
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I’m putting on my schizo hat. But I don’t like how the competency crisis was waved away forever the last four years. And suddenly Trump is elected to try and fix some of this mess, and planes can’t stop crashing and falling out of the sky. Once or twice is a coincidence maybe. But every week? The tweet upthread saying this continues to happen in trumps America is chilling. This didn’t seem to happen before Trump got back in, not with such frequency anyway. Now that he’s back they’re reporting on every bad thing that happens and conveniently leaving out why it’s happening to just blanket blame Trump. I don’t believe the firing of asexual lesbian nonbinary bodies is to blame. What’s going on?
 
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There's been about 2 feet of snow in Toronto this week and it's windy as fuck. Pearson is also a horrible airport that has been getting worse for sometime and the area surrounding the airport is almost entirely Jeets and Muzzies.

This isn't an issue specific to Toronto, but airport workers generally seem to be some of the most miserable people in the world and it is actually surprising there aren't more incidents.
 
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