Another Plane incident

[Mik]

That’s new. Never heard of a plane flipping.

[Jolly]

I was on an Air Canada flight that caught a bad wind sheer while landing. It rocked the plane so bad, the overhead luggage bins broke, flinging carry-on bags everywhere. I watched the right wing miss hitting the tarmac by about two feet, before the plane rocked back the other way.

I understand the Delta flight was trying to land during snow and high wind gusts. Maybe they caught a really bad sheer.

[Mik]

Likely so. I’ve spent a lot of hours on CRJs.

[jon-nyc]

Me too. And Embraers.

[Copper]

@Mik said in Another Plane incident:

That’s new. Never heard of a plane flipping.

That is my Cessna on the bottom


[LuFins Dad]

Welcome to Donald Trump’s Canada.

[Jolly]

The 51st state, eh?

[Renauda]

Never!

[taiwan_girl]

@Copper Wow!! What is the story about that?

[taiwan_girl]

Here is the video of the crash. Seeing the video, amazing that most people had no or minor injuries.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/us/video/new-video-delta-plane-flips-digvid

[89th]

Amazing video. Either the pilot was drunk or they hit some tough wind that pushed the plane down about 20’ off the ground. A little odd since I’m sitting on a Delta plane at MSP right now.

[89th]

[89th]

Good analysis btw. Basically a combination of a hard landing but a gust that made the right wing dip and strike the ground, which caused everything else…

Link to video

[89th]

Just landed in DC. They said to expect turbulence and a bump landing but that was the smoothest landing I can ever recall. Pilots might be extra cautious these days.

[taiwan_girl]

@89th Glad you made it safe and sound!!

[jon-nyc]

I wonder how many commercial pilots have wrecked an airliner and continued in their careers. Can’t be that many.

[Copper]

@jon-nyc said in Another Plane incident:

how many commercial pilots have wrecked an airliner and continued in their careers

There were a couple well known I can think of.

There was Jeff Skiles (Sully's co-pilot in the Hudson)
And Gene Roddenberry (yes, that Gene Roddenberry)
https://www.slashfilm.com/1644000/gene-roddenberry-star-trek-survived-plane-crashes/
Neil Armstrong broke a few flying machines
Harrison Ford broke at least a couple

Most by make and model

Most crashes

• Cessna: Has been involved in 56,084 plane crashes
• Piper: Has been involved in 35,802 plane crashes
• Beech: Has been involved in 12,395 plane crashes

I flew Cessna, Piper, Diamond and Beech, no crash.

Most fatalities

• Boeing 737-200: Has caused 906 fatalities
• Boeing 747: The Tenerife airport disaster in 1977 resulted in 583 fatalities when a KLM Boeing 747 collided with a Pan Am 747
• Boeing 727: From 1959 to 2020, the Boeing 727 had the most fatal hull losses of any commercial jet
• Boeing 737 MAX: The MAX 8 variant had two fatal hull losses in 2018 and 2019

[89th]

I’m sad no one zoomed into my iPad (laptop) picture. Especially @George-K

[jon-nyc]

So apparently the percentage of people who think flying is ‘unsafe’ or ‘somewhat unsafe’ increased from 10% last year to 40% today.

[Copper]

Kind of like vaccines.