Plane that landed upside down in Toronto was descending at a high rate of speed, preliminary report shows
A preliminary report into the Delta Air Lines flight that flipped upside down in a crash landing at Toronto's Pearson International Airport last month shows the plane had been descending at a high rate of speed.
A preliminary report into the Delta Air Lines flight that flipped upside down in a crash landing at Toronto's Pearson International Airport last month shows the plane had been descending at a high rate of speed.
Twenty-one people were injured in the botched landing on Feb. 17.
The flight, which was arriving from from Minneapolis, was operated by Endeavor Air and had 80 people on board — 76 passengers and four crew members.
The report, released Thursday by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, did not disclose a cause for the crash.
In the landing, “the aircraft impacted the runway, the right wing detached, and a fire ensued,” the report said. The aircraft then overturned, leaving passengers dangling upside down in their seats, and slid down the runway inverted until it came to a stop.
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