Emergency crews are responding to a crash involving a Delta Air Lines plane that arrived Monday at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, ultimately landing upside down amid wintry conditions.
The FAA says all 80 people on board Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, were evacuated.
Peel Regional Paramedic Services confirmed to CBS News that 15 patients had been transported to the hospital. Out of those injuries, one child and two adults are critically injured. The rest of the injuries are minor to moderate, officials said.
All crew and passengers have been accounted for.
Rolled over like a puppy
I’m glad everybody was ok, especially since the actual image of the fully-upside-down plane is so cool and I would feel bad enjoying it otherwise.
Three people critically injured ie. Not ok
Update: 19 of 21 people released from hospital; 2 remaining hospitalized passengers did not face life-threatening injuries.
Why in the ever loving fuck would you embed an auto playing video
After seeing video from several different angles it looks like there was no landing flare. The plane drove straight into the runway. The CRJ tends to land “flatter” than many aircraft, but the mains and nose touch almost simultaneously even with the compression of the main strut. That’s not right at all. We’ll have to wait and see if there was a shear or something that caused a loss of airspeed where the pilots kept the nose down, or whether it was just a crew fuckup, new pilot in the aircraft, whatever.
Yeah, it looks like there was a slight roll just before touching down that put all the weight on one set of wheels. The wheels just seemed to collapse. Maybe it was the lack of flare or a structural failure on the landing gear? It definitely didn’t look like it flared at all.
The failure was because of the lack of arresting the sink rate with a flare. I sincerely doubt it was a structural issue inherent with the aircraft, but the investigation will reveal what happened. The NTSB and the Canadian TSB will sort it out.
How does a plane get infected with Minneapolis? We shoupd make sure this doesn’t spread like bird flu.
We should have a law dictating that airplanes shall not ever land upside down!
what? and ban all flights to australia?
Darn! We might need a midway switch of airplane orientation.
The plane landed right side up and then flipped over.
We should have a law that planes aren’t allowed to flip over.
Trump’s fault
wtf is happening to all the planes all of a sudden? crazy year for aviation
Clusters appear in random data sets
Well this one got confused when talking to the air traffic controller. They said eh, and he mistook it as Australia. By the time he heard them say sorry it was tits up.
Edit: well shit… I heard they were all safe and now I am seeing not everyone might be okay, so now I feel like an ass
Sardonic humor is practically a necessity for survival at this point. Really glad that this wasn’t a high lethality crash.
Maybe we’re losing the will to maintain the high standards they require.
Or maybe the knowledge?
There’s been a pilot shortage for years.
So the FAA reduced the requirements for being a flight instructor. There were a bunch of shitty flight instructors which led to a lot of private pilot incidents.
I think we’re seeing the results of those shitty instructor’s students becoming commercial pilots at the same time that the seasoned pilots are leaving for retirement or cushy private roles for corporations and the wealthy.
So it’s mainly an experience thing. Most industries run on the experience of a small group that guides new workers until they’re experienced enough to keep things moving. This is what happens when there’s not enough seasoned workers to guide all of the new employees coming in. The same thing is happening in the trades, where a lot of industry knowledge is being poorly passed down due to all of the old guard retiring at the same time as their replacements are being hired. It’s anecdotal, but I’ve heard from friends who manage facilities departments at major hospitals that there’s a lot of barely running equipment because they’ve only got a handful of people, and only 1 or 2 experienced people, trying to maintain entire campuses.
Overworked, inexperienced employees will make mistakes. And unfortunately for them, they no longer have the opportunity to learn from experienced workers before they are thrust into critical roles.
The fuck is going on with planes lately?
Fascist destruction of agencies.
They were asking about planes.
Yes but that doesn’t align with my agenda. Obviously agency changes last month in the US would cause a crash in Canada because uh… uh … Delta is an American company
It’s not clear to me who or what is directly responsible for this, but do you really think the American Agency for Making Sure Planes Don’t Crash isn’t involved when an American Plane Crashes… just because it happened somewhere else?
Removal of regulation and QA cause of profit
Barrel roll!
Too soon?
Watch me flip!
Hmm, looks like a smaller plane than the jumbo jets we’re all used to.
You must live in a big city and not fly a lot of places then… Flights from where I live are nearly always that size or smaller.
Seats 95 passengers.
I’m not a plane expert, but I think 737s fit more.
That’s the plane I was referring to.
737s are barely bigger than this and not jumbo jets, they are narrow bodies.
737s are also kind of funny to pick since they are kind of notoriously small (this was one of the causes for the max crashes, Boeing needed to lengthen the nose gear and move the engines significantly higher on the wing in order to fit them, a normal 737NG with CFM56 engines, the bottom of the engine is about 2 feet off the ground only).
CRJs are smaller, but they are still commercial jets that fit tons of people.
This has not been a good year for aviation and we’re barely two months in
Don’t worry! I’m sure president Musk cutting staff at the understaffed FAA will reduce accidents!
The FAA says all 80 people on board Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, were evacuated.
Literally my go-to direction for when I need to use “evacuate”.
