Another Plane incident
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This one Delta, Minneapolis to Toronto. It flipped on the tarmac in Toronto.
Nine injured, two critical including a child, but all are expected to survive.
https://apnews.com/article/delta-toronto-airport-minneapolis-4ab235ef49b2d3757c9bd5fd8c6606ce
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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.
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@Mik said in Another Plane incident:
That’s new. Never heard of a plane flipping.
That is my Cessna on the bottom
image url)@Copper Wow!! What is the story about that?
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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
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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…
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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.
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I wonder how many commercial pilots have wrecked an airliner and continued in their careers. Can’t be that many.
@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 coupleMost 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
