By New York Post (World News) | Created at 2025-03-20 16:20:11 | Updated at 2025-04-05 15:50:04
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The Delta plane that flipped over and burst into flames in Toronto last month had issues with its landing gear and was descending at a high rate of speed just seconds before crash-landing upside down, according to a preliminary report released Thursday.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which is still probing the cause of the Feb. 17 crash that saw 21 people hospitalized, said a safety warning system had gone off in the jet about 2.6 seconds before touchdown.
The report, which doesn’t provide a final cause for the crash, added that the jet’s right main landing gear collapsed after making contact with the runway.
“At touchdown, the following occurred: the side-stay that is attached to the right [main landing gear] fractured, the landing gear folded into the retracted position, the wing root fractured between the fuselage and the landing gear, and the wing detached from the fuselage, releasing a cloud of jet fuel, which caught fire,” the report stated.
“The exact sequence of these events is still to be determined by further examination of the fracture surfaces.”
Despite dozens of injured passengers, every one of the 80 people on board survived when Delta Flight 4819 landed and flipped belly-up at Toronto’s Pearson Airport.
Footage of the aftermath showed the plane, which was en route from Minneapolis, upside down in the middle of the snow-covered runway with its right wing missing.
