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It's an interesting about face, because a few weeks ago he was talking about convincing OPEC to increase output to tank oil prices and saying that Russia wouldn't be able to hold out much longer.

My read is that nothing said verbally can't actually be assumed to have meaning in terms of policy. If Russia starts balking or Ukraine gives rare earth rights, his ramblings will change in an instant.

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Scary, indeed! My brother flew out the day after.

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My dad (former bush pilot) had this to say:

I’m sure the plane ran into the wingtip vortices of a larger plane that had just landed. They are very dangerous and will easily flip planes.

Wingtip vortices can pose a hazard to aircraft, especially during the landing and takeoff phases of flight. The intensity or strength of the vortex is a function of aircraft size, speed, and configuration (flap setting, etc.). The strongest vortices are produced by heavy aircraft, flying slowly, with wing flaps and landing gear retracted ("heavy, slow and clean"). Large jet aircraft can generate vortices that can persist for many minutes, drifting with the wind.

Interesting! It was an Azerbaijan Airlines flight. The pilots could definitely have been trained on Soviet techniques.

Thanks for this! I'm going to read up on windshear.

I remember a particularly hard landing in Kyiv nearly 20 years ago. Felt like we were dropped onto the runway. Airbus A320, iirc. One of those landings that actually moved things in the overhead compartments.

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

Surfacing this for visibility.

Excellent analysis by @aviationdoctor.eth, as always.

And this is why I'm not in aviation or physics. 🤣

Does the size of the plane determine the likelihood of cartwheeling?

Ah, ok. That makes a lot more sense.

I remember a particularly gusty landing in Manila one time. So much swaying. Could how a wingtip might touch the ground if it was really bad.

My understanding is that planes had to be fitted with skiis to land in Canada in winter.

I guess it must've turned sideways and then flipped?

Thoughts on this one @aviationdoctor.eth?

Thoughts on this one @aviationdoctor.eth?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/17/at-least-eight-injured-as-delta-plane-flips-upon-arrival-in-toronto-airport

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