A Delta Airlines plane flipped upon arrival at Toronto’s Pearson Airport and ended up on its roof Monday. The airport confirmed on X that an “incident” occurred with the Delta flight from Minneapolis and that all passengers and crew are accounted for.
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So are we blaming Canada this time?
Well, the way I see it, there’s a few possibilities, with different parties to blame.
Mechanical error would be the fault of Delta/Endeavor. This is a tested plane with many many flight hours. A mechanical issue could only be a maintenance error. But so far there have been no confirmed reports to suggest this.
Pilot error would be the fault of Endeavor’s training.
It could possibly be some freak gust of wind right at the worst moment. Second-to-second weather can be hard to deal with, especially at 40 km/h.
Or if ATC failed to adequately convey the conditions for the pilots to make an informed decision, that would be the fault of the GTA airport authority/Navcan.
TL;DR with the evidence we have so far, we’re looking at pilot error, or weather that was just wrong place wrong time.
Just part of the boycott of America. The plane got the crappy runway with… no crosswind and dry conditions. Hrm.