The Delta Air Lines flight originated at Minneapolis and ended up upside-down at Toronto. The aircraft was a CRJ-900ER operated by Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta.
“According to the Meteorological Service of Canada, the airport was experiencing blowing snow and winds of 32 mph (51 kph) gusting to 40 mph (65 kph). The temperature was about 16.5 degrees Fahrenheit (-8.6 Celsius).”
That’s a BIG thing to flip over! Glad no one died. Hope the injuries are not life threatening or permanent.
Saw a picture of the plane - scary. Way too many incidents recently.
This makes me worried about flight safety - zero problems in years and now, just a few weeks after all these controllers, engineers and mechanics got fired, we’ve hit 7?8? accidents. It may be unrelated but it makes me anxious about flights.
And hundreds of FAA employees were just laid off. Don’t know the specifics of their jobs, but timing certainly seems bad.
Miracle in Toronto!
I’m so relieved that no one died. My first thought was “multiple fatalities” when I saw the pictures.
I hope @busdriver11 weighs in with thoughts.
Local news reports that the plane design was critical in saving the passengers. First, the seats were designed not to fall apart in such situations. Second, the wings were designed to break away if the plane started rolling like that. Had they not fallen off, the fuselage would have been split into pieces with fatal consequences.
My intell says YYZ had 20-25 knot crosswind with gusts on an icy, slippery runway. Sounds dicey and it’s bizarre that it ended up upside down. That happened to one of our aircraft many years ago, and the right wing broke off. Amazing that nobody has died yet, but a very good egress and impressive emergency response.
It sounds like kind of a fluke, maybe? It really seemed like they had a very quick response. Hopefully, the ones who are critically injured will make full recoveries.
Toronto has very long and wide runways, and I’ve always felt it was easy to land at. Admittedly, there is one thing that I avoid (if possible) at northern airports in the winter, when booking flights for me and my family. If possible, I try to select large equipment flying into places that could have bad winter weather and icy runways. More experienced pilots, usually, and better equipment. I wouldn’t pay a lot of extra money for that, or suffer significant inconvenience, though.
Good to know. I’ve always felt smaller aircraft have the newer, less experienced pilots and cringe if I have to take one.
I just flew home yesterday from the SE back to the upper Midwest and United changed the aircraft for every flight departing near my gate, including mine, from a 737 to an Embraer E70. I hate when that happens as I always try for larger aircraft too. It was really windy and a pretty scary take off. I’m glad I didn’t hear about this Delta crash until I was safely on the ground.
Yeah, though that’s not always the case, as I am generalizing. Airline safety is still extremely good, though there have been a nasty string of accidents lately. I prefer mainline carriers, large equipment not just because of more experienced, older pilots, but because of better and more complex systems, a larger visual profile in the sky, and the pilots fly fewer legs (so they’re less tired). I do book commuter connections if needed, but not if I’m flying into potentially dicey winter weather and there’s a choice. Of course, if the airline changes equipment on you, what can you do?
CNN is showing videos of people getting out of the plane… at least two have their backpacks with them!! 
Seriously?
How stupid. And people videotaping? Ugh!
Yup! Just saw that, too. Someone filming inside the plane as people evacuated.
I heard a flight attendant yelling (off camera) in of one of the recordings “leave your stuff” “get out” “leave your stuff”…Yikes!
Close up video of the landing @busdriver11
Wow. No expert here, but the ground response and crew efforts look to be even more impressive when you see the fire from this angle. Flying this week and can’t say recent events aren’t concerning.