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


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 three critically injured are not considered life-threatening and of all 21 sent to the hospital 19 have been released.

On Tuesday morning, Delta Airlines said that 21 injured passengers were initially transported to local hospitals and that 19 had been released
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Although this article says there were no critical injuries also no crosswind conditions.

A Delta Air Lines plane crash-landed and flipped upside down on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday — and miraculously, everyone on board escaped the wreck without critical injuries, officials said.

Eighteen people were hurt, though none of them were believed to have been badly injured, when Delta Flight 4819 crashed on landing on the snowy tarmac in Canada’s largest city, Toronto’s Pearson Airport Fire Chief Todd Aitken said at a press conference Monday evening.

Paramedics had previously said three people were in critical condition, including a child, before Aitken shared the update.

It was not immediately clear what caused the plane to go belly-up, but Aitken noted that the runway “was dry and there were no cross-wind conditions.” The mangled airliner was left smoldering on the snowy tarmac as dazed passengers scrambled out.

 
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neverendingmidi said:
Every US airport I’ve flown into where there’s snow uses salt like they’re trying to recreate the salt flats of Utah.
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Literally no airport uses (or should be using) salt on the airside (apron, taxiways and runways) because it's corrosive to the aircraft. They have huge plows and brush sweepers to remove ice and snow. No chemicals are used.
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De-icing liquid used on the planes is glycol based.
 
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BlewberryNausea said:
The three critically injured are not considered life-threatening and of all 21 sent to the hospital 19 have been released.



Although this article says there were no critical injuries also no crosswind conditions.

A Delta Air Lines plane crash-landed and flipped upside down on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday — and miraculously, everyone on board escaped the wreck without critical injuries, officials said.

Eighteen people were hurt, though none of them were believed to have been badly injured, when Delta Flight 4819 crashed on landing on the snowy tarmac in Canada’s largest city, Toronto’s Pearson Airport Fire Chief Todd Aitken said at a press conference Monday evening.

Paramedics had previously said three people were in critical condition, including a child, before Aitken shared the update.

It was not immediately clear what caused the plane to go belly-up, but Aitken noted that the runway “was dry and there were no cross-wind conditions.” The mangled airliner was left smoldering on the snowy tarmac as dazed passengers scrambled out.

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The three critically injured were incredibly lucky. There was a regional lifeflight helicopter about to takeoff when the crash occured. They responded to the crash from a few hundred feet away and their paramedics were on the ground helping pull the injured out. The 3 critical injuries were airborne enroute to the trauma center in under 5-7 minutes from the crash happening.

That news report is also wrong. A ton of pilots have reported that there were very strong crosswinds coming in at a 40 degree angle from the nose. 20-26 kts with gusts over 30. The runway was not dry. It just had less than 1/8" of snow and ice. But the runway was 25% narrower than normal due to snow. (Plows cannot plow to the edge of the runway.)
 
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User names must be unique said:
I dunno as a layman looks like the landing gear just gave up, I'm going to say maintenance issue, If it was the hard landing that was the issue, i'd expect the plane to bounce up much more than it did here.
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If your landing is hard enough the gear will collapse. Typically there’s a bounce, but with spoilers its hard to do.

All of that excess energy has to go somewhere
 
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RodgerDodger said:
I wonder if that pushed them sideways enough to clip a wing on the snowbank?
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From the video taken by the plane about to line up behind them, looks like they came down hard, but also fighting crosswinds, resulting in the right main taking the full force of the impact.


BlewberryNausea said:
The three critically injured are not considered life-threatening and of all 21 sent to the hospital 19 have been released.
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Three critical, but only two left in the hospital? Huh?


OutInTheRain said:
So it looks like their altimeter was set incorrectly and they were 100 feet lower than they thought they were. Which accounts for the hard landing.
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Source? Also airliners aren't using the barometric altimeter on final, they're using a radar altimeter that gives their height above ground. As you approach you get callouts for alltitude. 1,000, 500, 300, 100, then increments of 10 from 50 to touchdown.

And unless it's a full autoland, you also get a callout for "minimums" (varies by airport) by which you must have the runway in sight, which also means you can see the PAPI and know if you're on glideslope or not. If you're not on glideslope or can't see the runway at minimums, it's a mandatory go-around. Plus if you're on an ILS approach anyway, you know where the glideslope is and you're following that, not the altimeter.
 
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Looks like canda still has a functioning , state social media propaganda program

these comments are right next to eachother on second most popular video out right now on the crash

lmao I kept scrolling and found this

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Identical profile picture, but weirdly patriotic

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Multipost from politics thread but canda is activley putting fake comment sin videos to make people think people are happier with results
 
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RodgerDodger said:
That news report is also wrong. A ton of pilots have reported that there were very strong crosswinds coming in at a 40 degree angle from the nose. 20-26 kts with gusts over 30. The runway was not dry. It just had less than 1/8" of snow and ice. But the runway was 25% narrower than normal due to snow. (Plows cannot plow to the edge of the runway.)
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Incorrect. This accident was due entirely because leafs are retards and tried to murder the Americans on the flight
 
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Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.....

If they can re-use the plane? It was a GREAT one.....
 
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