Aviation


Walken said:
Was only in Toronto airport a few weeks ago, didn't see any planes landing upside down.

Saw a few shouts say it landed too heavy, possibly a late stall on landing.

Thoughts with the two in critical condition, but looks like a miraculous escape for most.

As always the service staff seem to rise to the occasion in crisis and got everyone off.
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I like flying into Pearson, though it’s a bit wild how close the 401 seems when landing. The other small airport on Toronto island is awesome. What a spot.

I have actually been on two planes that needed to have emergency landings. Not pleasant but as you mention the pilots and flight attendants were great both times
 
Rita_Poon said:
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Watching the video, it looks to my untrained eye that the right rear landing gear has collapsed, this has then put the weight of that side of the plane onto the engine and wing and it's given almost immediately and suffered catastrophic failure then exploded taking the remaining fuel with it.

All on board are very lucky the accident occurred on landing and not fully fueled up on take off.
 

I flew from Wellington to Nelson recently, a 30 minute flight over the Cook Strait. Went over in an older 12 seater that was like a transit van with wings. Back on a more modern 10 seater. Both flights have just the one pilot, no cabin crew, direct line of sight to the cockpit and view through front screen to the runway. Like a fairground ride tbh.

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BlueInNZ said:
I flew from Wellington to Nelson recently, a 30 minute flight over the Cook Strait. Went over in an older 12 seater that was like a transit van with wings. Back on a more modern 10 seater. Both flights have just the one pilot, no cabin crew, direct line of sight to the cockpit and view through front screen to the runway. Like a fairground ride tbh.

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Been on one of them 12 seaters in Australia (Darwin)

It was horrendous, vibrating like fook, felt like we was going over speed bumps in the air.
Sweaty palms for about an hour it was.
 
Walken said:
Was only in Toronto airport a few weeks ago, didn't see any planes landing upside down.

Saw a few shouts say it landed too heavy, possibly a late stall on landing.

Thoughts with the two in critical condition, but looks like a miraculous escape for most.

As always the service staff seem to rise to the occasion in crisis and got everyone off.
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Seen some describe it as a hard landing, but I didn't see any bounce (doesn't mean it wasn't hard, just often you see a bounce). Some said the wind/shear was nasty but you couldn't see any evidence on the video from the waiting airplane's cockpit. Looking at the records, the CRJ900 that crashed isn't even 20 years old, although it still could have taken a large share of beating. My initial question is whether there is any landing gear failure. Obviously there is a wingtip strike, but was that simply caused by wind and a bad landing? Very lucky for those on board and glad for (so far) no casualties.
 
Rita_Poon said:
Watching the video, it looks to my untrained eye that the right rear landing gear has collapsed, this has then put the weight of that side of the plane onto the engine and wing and it's given almost immediately and suffered catastrophic failure then exploded taking the remaining fuel with it.

All on board are very lucky the accident occurred on landing and not fully fueled up on take off.
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That's what I thought as well, reminded me of the FedEx crash in Tokyo
 

Looks like the pilot didn't flare the plane for landing (lifting the nose) and it didn't look like the flaps were extended at all. Could be pilot error, could be mechanical failure of the flaps, like that Korean crash recently.
 

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