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WOW! This is not a good year for aviation

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Aviation incidents have been almost constantly in the news so far this year, and now Toronto is in there, too. as an hour ago a Delta plane from Minneapolis flipped on landing.
Not tipped...flipped....the plane is entirely upside down on the tarmac!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...t-incident-toronto-pearson-airport-rcna192508

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/n...rt-minneapolis-st-paul-international-airport/

Fortunately, all aboard have come off the plane safely, although there are about fifteen injuries....a suprisingly low number given the circumstances.

The cause is not yet determined but weather involvement seems a certainty.

News reports are saying it is a small plane, but that has to be seen as a comparative term, as eighty people is not a small number of passengers..
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We have had bad weather here for almost a week...snow, about three feet of it since Thursday (depending on where reports come from) and maybe another foot coming on Wednesday......and weather reports earlier today suggested wind could be hitting us at up to 60MPH

Anyway....the damage here is mostly limited to the physical aircraft and passengers/crew mostly OK :cheerful:
 
The injuries are amazingly low, considering the plane flipping over! Were people buckled into their seats, hanging up side down?
 
Appear wings gone completely. Folks did selfies inverted. This has to be on camera somewhere. Fuselage intact.
 
Been watching it on the news. Can't really figure out what happened . One passenger did report a hard landing . Maybe a cross wind ? But I agree with Cipher . This has to be on camera somewhere .....
 
I’m flying to Vegas next Monday. I have never been afraid to fly. That may be starting to change. :|
 
I know a couple with two children, the husband and wife will never board the same plane in case something happens.
 
Rob S. said:
I know a couple with two children, the husband and wife will never board the same plane in case something happens.
Click to expand...

This would not be unusual and could be a mandatory requirement for many corporations with their executives and, I believe, senior military personnel.also do this fairly often, although not always.


Update from local news /CBC says there were total twenty-one injured and nineteen have already been released from hospital.

Almost everyone is amazed that the plane fuselage held together
 
While listening to news report on the car radio this morning I heard about how two runways are still blocked by the wreckage and the consequential and unavoidable flight delays. Then it focused on how many people are complaining about the inconvenience this near-disaster has caused them .

The station then brought in a so-called "aviation expert" who gave his advice on what airlines have to do for them, and how to make claims against airlines even though the delays are very clearly not caused by or in the control of any affected airline.

It is not unfamiliar, but still made me a bit sad to see how greatly entitled so many in our society have become.. "Hey....that was yesterday. It's over.. Now it's all about me."


Disclaimer:
: I have seen countless flights land and take off at the same airport as I worked there for more than three decades, I have dispatched hundreds of flights, and was involved in every aspect of ground handling,, passenger and cargo, but I do not consider myself an aviation expert.

That said, this pilot's summary of what likely happened to the flight as it landed closely matches my own views..

https://globalnews.ca/news/11023369/delta-air-lines-crash-hard-landing-main-gear-collapse/
 
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Oh gawd I hate flying. I flew on an RC135 out of Hellenikon - Athens Greece for a couple of years in the early 80s. It was a very windy airport and we flew an old 50's era Boeing 707 overloaded with electronic gear, We had to 'do the crab' on many landings and blew out a lot of tires on landing. It was rough. I sat in on TO, Landing, and aerial refuelings. At our 3AM pre mission brief we had a Q&A quiz and if you got it all 100% you could call an observation. I recall hydraulic fluid dripping on my head as I sat on a camera case between the pilot and co-pilot. They joked "oh it's just the line to the landing gear". I can't imagine what these people went through, OMG.
 
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