According to the initial research released on Thursday, the Delta planes that landed at the snow-clad Pearson Airport in Canada with its mouth up suffered a equipment failure at the last second and was descended at a very high rate. Although there was no accident in the crash-landing on February 17, passengers were taken to the hospital as a result.
At the time, Toronto’s Pearson Airport was experiencing great winds and icy temperatures, and this particular Delta aircraft had an speed of 155 mph when it landed.
The research report does not identify a true cause of the collision. The proper main landing gear of the jet, according to the report, collided after it touched down on the airport and flipped in a split second.
The report stated that “at score, the following occurred: the side-stay that is attached to the right]main getting items ] fractured, the landing gear folded into the retracted place, the wing main fractured between the aircraft and the landing gear, and the aircraft detached from the aircraft, releasing a cloud of jet fuel that caught fire.”
Further examination of the fracture surfaces is still needed to determine the precise sequence of these events, it continued.
What happened to the Minneapolis-bound Delta plane?
The Endeavor Air subsidiary of Delta Airline’s aircraft flipped at the landing, with the tail caught fire. Two flight crew members and two cabin crew members were on board. Bombardier Inc. produced the aircraft in 2008 as a CL-600-2D24 ( Regional Jet Series 900 ). The pilots ‘ flying experience was later revealed as the incident approached and they were alerted to it. The pilot of the aircraft was the first officer. She had approximately 1, 422 hours of total flight time at the time of the collision, including 418.7 hours on the type of aircraft involved in the collision, according to the report.
The pilot was the captain who was keeping watch on the flight. At the time of the crash, he had 3, 570 hours of total flight time, of which 764 hours were spent on the same aircraft type.
