CRJ900 accident in Toronto, Canada

[MiTasol]

Breaking: Multiple people injured after plane flips at Canadian airport

Multiple people have been injured after a commercial flight crashed at an airport in Toronto, Canada, with the plane eventually coming to rest upside down.

www.abc.net.au

 

[fubar57]

Somebody got lucky, if you want to call upside down lucky

 

[Donivanp]

So far they report no fatalities and 8 injuries only one critical. Freaking makes miracle on the Hudson look like a cake walk. Upside down and missing a wing and no fatalities! Someone is blessed.

 

[Greg Boeser]

18 injuries reported. They are all going to wake up sore tomorrow.
Unbelievable that it flipped and only one serious injury. He'll think twice next time about unbuckling before the plane has come to a complete stop.

 

[MiTasol]

The serious one may be a baby or toddler in a lap restraint. Those things should be banned.

 

[MiTasol]

I hope this is not a repeat of the accident at St Paul some 30 years ago. If it is then someone will has some serious questions to answer and the lawsuits will be thicker than the snowbank..

Aircraft slid sideways on an icy runway and the wing tip dug in to the snowbank ripping the wing off and flipping the aircraft. That was a freighter so only crew on board.

 

[fubar57]

Possible cross wind..... No fatalities after plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto's Pearson airport, 18 injured | CBC News

 

[Greg Boeser]

Well, this has truly screwed up regional flights to/from MSP. My daughter's flight tonight was cancelled and now she's not leaving until tomorrow noon.

 

[GTX]

View: https://x.com/airwaysmagazine/status/1891809438182359485

 

[GTX]

View: https://x.com/MatthewCappucci/status/1891689274682024441

 

[cammerjeff]

Wow that video seems to show no cross wind conditions. It looks like the plane came down Right Main gear 1st, and heavy on the right MLG. Right wing low. It could have dug a wing into the snowbank on the right side.
Also seeing as it is a Parallel runway I wonder if a Heavy Jet had just landed on the adjacent runway? And wing tip vortexes? Just a thought. Either way terrifyingly quick.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

The snow kept it from being a fatality crash. If it had been clear the fireball would've been much bigger.

 

[MiTasol]

Also seeing as it is a Parallel runway I wonder if a Heavy Jet had just landed on the adjacent runway? And wing tip vortexes? Just a thought. Either way terrifyingly quick.

The initial report included that the crew had been warned of wake turbulence.

 

[Gnomey]

Just glad all ok. Multiple reports of those onboard that it was a harder than usual landing. Looks like possibly landing on right main gear only which gives way with rather force causing the wing to dig in but all speculation at this point.

 

[GTX]

They should include footage of this incident in every safety briefing on an airline re keeping belts done up…though it might also result in people refusing to fly…which isn't necessarily an issue if you want more room…

 

[GTX]

What also gets me is that one video I saw showed people still taking their carry on roller bags as they escaped the plane. The friggen' thing is upside down and on fire and you are worried about your bag. Priorities people, priorities!

 

[cammerjeff]

What also gets me is that one video I saw showed people still taking their carry on roller bags as they escaped the plane. The friggen' thing is upside down and on fire and you are worried about your bag. Priorities people, priorities!

It happens, it is human nature. An ex coworker of mine was Non reving on the DC-9 that was involved in a runway incursion and was struck by a 727 taking off at Detroit Metro Airport back in 1990. He said when the DC-9 came to a stop it was filling up with smoke and he stood up, and the 1st thing he automatically did was open the overhead bin to grab his carry on.

But to his credit he did stop at that point and head for the left over wing exit. He got out on the wing and then noticed an elderly woman struggling to get to the exit, and he went back inside and helped her out. Shortly after they got off the wing the fire flashed thru the fuselage. He shook when he described the event weeks later. You never know what will go thru your mind in the seconds you have to react to an emergency. Hopefully you will make the right call.

Source off the internet years ago.

 

[MiTasol]

I used to use a video called The last flight of Juliet Lima (which detailed the British Air Tours B737 accident at Manchester UK in the 70s) as a training aid.

In that accident only those that exited the aircraft in the first very short time (68 seconds from memory) survived. When the fire flashed into the fuselage the seat cushions and wall linings were not only highly combustible but they also produced toxic gases that killed the rest. A very quick set of legislation changes world wide resulted in all new seat cushions, seat coverings, side wall linings etc that required that the new materials have very high fire resistance and did not produce any toxic gases and that all exit marking be floor level because naturally all those signs over exits were buried in smoke.

All blindingly obvious requirements in hindsight.

Some countries even planned on extending the changes to include overhead water mist spray systems for smoke reduction but that was abandoned after multiple trials found it impractical.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Looks like the pilot didn't flair their aircraft before touching down. The video of the rapid approach looks more like a F-18 about to violently trap on the USS Nimitz, rather than a CRJ attempting a smooth touch down.

 

[MiTasol]

Lets see what the Canadian investigator and NTSB say first. It could turn out that, like the Korean crash, there is a lot more at play than what the videos show.