The future of flying

[Douglas Quaid]

I know a girl that's trying to become a pilot, and she has one of the worst personalities I've ever met. Could just be a coincidence, but I'd avoid women that choose masculine careers.

I want American pilots to be white men.

 

[Caduceus]

 

[Shaquilleoatmeal]

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Somehow people seem relatively fine.

Edit: just a minute late.

 

[TheLoneReader]

I understand the dude is in shock, but man, I think I'd be thanking God at that point....

 

[Northern Pilgrim]

Pure speculation, but if it was an icy runway they could have easily slid off to one side, then when the landing gear on that side gets caught in the snow it would whip the fuselage around perpendicular to the runway and all of the momentum could easily cause the wings to be snapped off and roll the fuselage upside down...

 

[Samseau]

Seconds after the firemen finished searching the plane, the entire chassis burst into flames, while they were leaping out of the door:



The smoke rising from the plane is from the fire. One hot tin can.

More proof that no one dies before God permits it. Angels saved this plane.

 

[Caduceus]

More proof that no one dies before God permits it. Angels saved this plane.

On that note, more proof of this....

 

[Northern Pilgrim]

Not the greatest footage but you can seen the fireball and smoke start. Rolling in the snow probably helped to keep the fire from going like mad initially...

 

[Caduceus]

Clear video footage of the plane crash in Toronto has emerged.
It seems the airplane was mere seconds from touching down on the runway correctly (and straight) and then either landed too hard, or landed crooked, or slipped on the ice. Immediately then one of its wings dipped too far down to one side and fully smashed on the runway, and then the whole plane completely flipped over. All this happened within about 5 to 7 seconds.

 

[RedLagoon]

Thank God everyone survived. Shows you how unbelievably strong that fuselage is and the wings etc are meant to break off during a situation like that.

Looks to me he was too low btw and hit the runway way too hard.

 

[The Penitent Man]

Thank God everyone survived. Shows you how unbelievably strong that fuselage is and the wings etc are meant to break off during a situation like that.

Looks to me he was too low btw and hit the runway way too hard.

Looks like the gears collapsed?

 

[RedLagoon]

Looks like the gears collapsed?

Looks like the right hand side main gear (starboard) collapsed on impact (you see the plane correcting due to the strong winds so it wasn't completely level) which made the plane sink and tumble and flip. It was low on fuel after a long flight so thank God the whole thing didn't end up in an inferno.

 

[HoaxWhisperer]

Thank God everyone survived. Shows you how unbelievably strong that fuselage is and the wings etc are meant to break off during a situation like that.

Looks to me he was too low btw and hit the runway way too hard.

I'm not a pilot but if anything I'd wager the plane was a bit too high and was descending on too steep of a trajectory in the final seconds before touchdown. The weather (wind) conditions may have played a role in rushing the landing, but the touchdown seemed very abrupt. I wonder what the circumstances were leading up to that.

 

[RedLagoon]

I'm not a pilot but if anything I'd wager the plane was a bit too high and was descending on too steep of a trajectory in the final seconds before touchdown. The weather (wind) conditions may have played a role in rushing the landing, but the touchdown seemed very abrupt. I wonder what the circumstances were leading up to that.

Yes that could've also been the case, approaching too high and then trying to drop speed to catch the glide slope only to find yourself in too steep of a decline.
Going too low could look similar but then I didn't hear the engines picking up speed just before impact so they might've been disillusioned by all the snow around if they were approaching using VFR.

Most likely they weren't stabilised during the approach and a go around would've been the better option.

 

[Caduceus]

Looks to me he was too low btw and hit the runway way too hard.

Do not assume the gender of the pilots !!

 

[Cooper]

 

[RedLagoon]

I prefer drunk Japanese male pilots at this point.

 

[Cooper]

The Ann Coulter rule is in effect, since the names/identities of the crew have not been released, we can assume that they were young girl boss pilots...

 

[The Penitent Man]

Just another reminder that women are children who like to pretend. They like to play dress up. They like to play tea party. They like to play friends.

When their bodies grow older, but their minds do not, they now pretend to play pilot, soldier, or engineer. They have no grasp of the responsibilities associated with these jobs, despite having trained for them, because they are not designed to shoulder that burden. Life is a game to them, and winning means getting to play dress up as someone who has something important to do and showing off the uniform.

 

[Thomas More]

Looks like the right hand side main gear (starboard) collapsed on impact (you see the plane correcting due to the strong winds so it wasn't completely level) which made the plane sink and tumble and flip. It was low on fuel after a long flight so thank God the whole thing didn't end up in an inferno.

It initially made a big fireball that was all over the back of the plane, but when it started rolling over and over, it seems to have had the same effect as when a person who's on fire rolls over and over on the ground to put the flames out. The cold and snow seemed to help kill the flames as well, although I'm sure the runway would have been plowed and salted fairly clean.

The videos that show the people getting off the plane also show fire trucks hosing down the plane. I read somewhere that after everyone got off the plane, it burst into flames again.

It's truly a blessing from God that everyone survived.