What Made This Delta Flight FLIP UPSIDE DOWN in Toronto?
A preliminary report by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada reveals that the Delta Air Lines flight that crashed at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on February 17 was descending at a high rate of speed before its disastrous landing. The flight from Minneapolis, operated by Endeavor Air, had 80 people aboard (76 passengers and 4 crew members). Twenty-one people sustained injuries, with two reported as serious. The report released Thursday did not identify a cause for the crash. According to the report's second-by-second breakdown, 3.6 seconds before touchdown, the plane's descent rate increased significantly. A second later, the enhanced ground proximity warning system triggered a "sink rate" alert. Just 1.6 seconds before touchdown, the aircraft was "slightly below the glide slope" - the system guiding controlled descent to the runway. When the right main landing gear contacted the runway, it […]
