Last month, Jeff covered how a Delta flight traveling from Minneapolis to Toronto completely inverted on the runway upon landing.
Video footage showed Delta Flight 4819 skidding down the runway before flipping over, completely severing one of the wings. Passengers and crew had to escape from the upside down plane onto an icy runway.
Miraculously, everyone survived. There were many reported injuries.
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For those wondering how the Delta plane crash in Toronto took place, here’s a new video of exactly what happened. pic.twitter.com/eSGvxcMSr6
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According to the New York Post, a preliminary report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada showed that a safety warning system sounded off on the jet 2.6 seconds before the plane touched down.
Additionally, the airport, Toronto Pearson, had been dealing with very high winds and extreme temperatures in the aftermath of a snowstorm. The plane was having issues with its landing gear and descended at a high rate of speed, as the video above shows (via NYP):
The airspeed was 136 knots, or roughly 155 mph, according to the preliminary findings.
The report, which doesn’t provide a final cause for the crash, added that the jet’s right main landing gear collapsed after making contact with the runway.
“At touchdown, the following occurred: the side-stay that is attached to the right [main landing gear] fractured, the landing gear folded into the retracted position, the wing root fractured between the fuselage and the landing gear, and the wing detached from the fuselage, releasing a cloud of jet fuel, which caught fire,” the report stated.
The full investigation is still underway. As Townhall reported, Delta Airlines offered to pay passengers aboard the flight $30,000 with “no strings attached.”
