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Absolutely insane photos from a plane crash today at Toronto Pearson International Airport. The flight was the from the U.S., adding to the steady drumbeat of plane crashes that have taken place over the past few weeks for some reason. I fly there a lot so it is jarring to see this. One has to wonder whether any of this has to do with governance dysfunction and mass layoffs now taking place in the U.S.

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Woah. What was the cause of this one? Or is it too early to tell?

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Update: I've now seen the video of the landing taken from a security camera. The aircraft didn't flare / pitch up and just kept descending with a level attitude into the ground at an excessive vertical speed. It was also not banking, so it looks like we can rule out a wingtip touching the ground first.

So, it was presumably a very hard landing that caused gear collapse and wing separation on one side, and then rolling over due to the asymmetry of the other wing still being attached and generating lift.

My bet is on sudden windshear just before the flare causing the aircraft to slam into the ground. The weather looked terrible in YYZ.

Windshear at landing is really the one edge case that we can't do much about safety-wise. As much as we have windshear detectors on the ground and on the aircraft, if it happens at that exact sweet spot just before the flare, there isn't enough time to spool up the engines and go around.

At least in those rare occasions, the height is so little that the accident is survivable

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Best guess: windshear

https://warpcast.com/aviationdoctor.eth/0xd21f47eb