While the emergency response seemed good in both crashes, the biggest factor in people walking away was minimal damage to the fuselage and minimal fire each time. Part of that is decent airport design without huge concrete walls at the end of the runway (cough Muan). Most of it is luck.
Once people are standing on the ceiling, I agree. The tricky part is who pulls their belt first and drops on their head. They can help others fall slower. If two or three adjacent seats pull near the same time, they will land as a tangled mess and increase odds of injury.
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Is that a correct angle of approach?Video of the crash is circulating. Came in straight, no flare, collapsed when it hit the ground and then everybody was a passenger. Plane went right and then tumbled over the left wing. I got it from an acquaintance, I'm not sure if it's public public yet. I'm sure it will be soon enough.
EDIT:
That didn't take long
New Video Shows Moment Delta Air Lines Crash Lands at Toronto Airport
New video shows the moment a Delta Air Lines flight crash landed ... and the impact and explosion happened as soon as the plane was wheels down.
TSB will give real answers but from what is available now they were descending over 1000 fpm and should have been <200 and they should have flared and didn't. Hard landing is 240 fpm, over 600 fpm you expect to destroy the plane. Planes landing on an aircraft carrier are designed to hit hard and land at about 700 fpm sink.
Wow. So what is that... distracted pilots? I think they were doing an ILS approach, but I don't know enough about that to understand how that could set them up for this situation.Video of the crash is circulating. Came in straight, no flare, collapsed when it hit the ground and then everybody was a passenger. Plane went right and then tumbled over the left wing. I got it from an acquaintance, I'm not sure if it's public public yet. I'm sure it will be soon enough.
EDIT:
That didn't take long
New Video Shows Moment Delta Air Lines Crash Lands at Toronto Airport
New video shows the moment a Delta Air Lines flight crash landed ... and the impact and explosion happened as soon as the plane was wheels down.
FO was very very green and in training. Not sure if that is a factor or not.
Very expensive training.
Is that public information?
I don't know. I assume most important things will be public soon enough.
If this was a dei hire Trump is going to have a field day.
That seems to be the best quality footage of the crash.
As others mentioned they may have been coming in too hot, or a wind gust pushed them down at too fast of a speed.
