Delta airlines plane crashes at Toronto airport

Meddling-Monk said:
I'm having a hard time picturing exactly how it's possible to have landed upside down like that. Surely the wings would have prevented a horizontal roll, and flipping upside down surely would have more... er... devastating? And hence unlikely? So they came in upside down?

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Ah, it looks like the wings are off, so it could have been a horizontol roll then... wow.
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Me too!
It's very difficult to say but it looks like it came down very hard and at the last second tipped to the right which broke the wing clean off, then the left wing acted as a sail to turn the plane completely upside down. Quite horrifying.
 
200sols said:
Passengers are residents know nothing about the technical aspects of these things.
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No, but it’s easy to cross reference to actual plane capabilities. Anyway, historical wind gust data is well below the planes capability, so short of a sudden wind shear event, who knows. Amazing they all survived such an impact and the fuselage is still intact.
 
1pudding1 said:
there doesn't seem to be any flare at all, the nose doesn't pitch up at all until maybe the last 0.5secs before impact
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I've been sent a video from a friend, filmed from the flight deck of the aircraft at the holding point, waiting to cross or line up. (Subject aircraft travelling left to right). I can't link due to expletives, but I'm sure it'll soon be in the public domain sooner or later if not already.

When the aircraft was filmed through the captain's window, the aircraft appeared to have a slight nose up attitude. As the camera pans past the frame between the captain's and FO's window, the aircraft then appeared to have a nose down attitude, and as you suspect, a sudden full upward elevator deflection less than a second before impact.

E: The video also indicates there was a significant headwind, perhaps slightly crossed from the right, judging be the way the snow is being blown.

E2: the METAR at the time of the incident:

CYYZ 171900Z 27028G35KT 6SM R24L/3000VP6000FT/U BLSN BKN034 M09/M14 A2993 RMK CU6 SLP149
 
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Looks like the gear fails and the plane rolls to the side and the wing is destroyed and it flips. Amazing nobody died in that.
 
malachi said:
Cold temps may have helped.

Imagine that happening one of the hottest days of the year.
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may well be, iirc if the fuel gets warm and starts to evaporate it can be a major issue, so colder fuel might well mean it's thicker and less likely to immediately aerosolise, it could also be there wasn't much fuel on board depending on how much was loaded for the flight.
 
That footage is insane, gives a bit more context as yesterday it was just a plane had landed upside down which made no sense.
 
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