A passenger aboard the Delta Airlines aircraft that flipped onto its back while flying to Toronto shared her experience while aboard the plane. Now, you might be thinking that she shared what happened while aboard the plane. Instead, she quite literally recorded herself in her seat moments after the aircraft flipped and several minutes after she and several others were evacuated from it.
While attempting to land at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, a Mitsubishi CRJ-900LR spun out and landed on its back due to windy conditions on the tarmac. Fortunately, there were no casualties, though 19 people were injured, including three who are in critical care. For context, those aboard the plane were quite literally either hanging from their seats or were ejected from them when emergency services arrived. Passenger Ashley Zook posted a video of herself hanging by her seatbelt to Snapchat.
“Apparently seatbelts work”
When the plane was set to land, the weather was 32 miles per hour with gusts of up to 40 miles per hour. However, the pilots aboard the aircraft were trained to handle inclement weather, and the plane itself is designed and verified for these sorts of conditions. Regardless, it’s odd that the plane was able to quite literally end up inverted, though it’s still within the realm of possibilities. In a post to X, the airport verified that “all passengers and crew are accounted for” despite the chaos.
Within the last month, this mishap has been the second-largest aviation issue in North America. On January 29, an army helicopter collided with a jetliner in Washington DC, killing 67 people. Two days after that, another six people were killed by a medical transportation plane and another ten in a crash in Alaska.
It’s fortunate that no one walked away from the crash in intense, critical condition, and I wish a speedy recovery to those who were transported to nearby hospitals.
