On Monday, a Delta Air Lines jet flipped on its roof while at Toronato’s Person Airport. Fortunately, all 80 people on board survived. Some hurt, but they had relatively minor injuries.
When the flight from Minneapolis carrying 76 passengers and four crew members tried to land on a dry runway at around 2:15 pm, snow was being blown by winds gusting to 40 mph.
A video shared on social media only showed the aftermath with the Mitsubishi CRJ-900LR overturned, the fuselage seemingly intact and firefighters dousing, left of the fire as passengers climbed out and walked onto the tarmac.
According to the Meteorological Service of Canada, the airport has blowing snow and winds of 32 mph. The temperature was around 16.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
According to the audio recording from the tower at Toronto Pearson International Airport, the flight was cleared to land around 2:10 local time. The tower sent a warning to the pilots about an airflow bump in the glide path as the plane landed on land.
The CEO of aviation safety consulting firm Safety Operation Systems, John Cox, said it is very rare to see something like this.
It sounded to him like a controller trying to be helpful. However, the wind is going to give the flight a bumpy ride coming down, and it can be up and down through the glide path.
The transport minister of Canada, Anita Anand, issued a statement saying she was closely following up on the serious incident at the Toronto airport Delta Airlines fight 4819 from Minneapolis.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated after the crash and confirmed that people were evacuated and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada will be charging the investigation.
The 16-year-old CRJ900, made by Bombardier and powered by the GE Aerospace engine, has a seating capacity of 90 people.
Previous cases of planes flipping over on landing include McDonnell-Douglas’s MD-11 model. In the year 2009, a FedEx freighter turned over on landing at Tokyo’s Narita airport, killing both pilots. In 1999, a China Airlines flight inverted in Hong Kong, causing three of 315 people to die. In 1997, another freighter of FedEx flipped over at Newark but there was no fatalities.
