You know the rules. Nobody knows nothing in the first 24 hours. Near as I can tell it’s been close to 18 hours and still… theres no info on the pilots.. Just saw the crash footage. The plane came in too steeply and was either going to slow, or mechanical/pilot failure made it impossible to flare the aircraft on landing.
Who knows. Maybe DEI flunkies built the airplane. Maybe Darwin or Murphy decided to have a little fun? Maybe shit just happened?
We may never know…
Plane hit the tarmat hard . Bounced a couple of times , ground grabbed a wing and the show was on.
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At time if crash winds were gusting upto 60km/hr, poor ground visibility. The video shows it coming in very flat and very slow; after it hits its just too much snow to see much from the video. It obviously snagged a wing on the ground and sheared it off then flipped onto its back.
ReplyDeleteSpeed and angle make me thing a stall.
Exile1981
Looking at the video, I don't see the flaps fully down. The CRJ is based on the Challenger executive jet. The flap system has an assymetry detector and brake at the outboard end of each flap. When the flaps are in motion the assymetry detectors are counting rotations of the flap drives. If they go out of synch the brakes activate, locking the flaps in position to prevent an unequal lift situation. In the '80s and '90s we had problems with the Challenger flaps notably in the arctic in the winter. Testing with freeze spray revealed that some of the detectors failed when cold.
ReplyDeleteFlapless landings in a Challenger are tricky. https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/324722
Al_in_Ottawa
I will have to watch the vid again - good eye, Al.
DeleteBut… why would flapless landings be a challenge? I know with the little RC stuff - I never use flaps. The models get too bouncy and floaty for me so I just sorta fly them onto the runway and put up with the longer roll out. Can’t the big jets do the same? Surely the runways are long enough at Pearson…?