On February 17th, a commercial aircraft was forced to make an emergency crash landing at Toronto Pearson Airport. In this in-depth analysis, Captain Steeeve examines the ATC communications, cockpit decision-making, and real footage captured by witnesses and survivors.
We break down the critical moments leading up to the impact, the actions taken by the flight crew, and the emergency response that followed. This video provides expert insight into the challenges pilots face in high-stress situations and what can be learned from this event.
The Interview from "The National": https://youtu.be/K9paRHkZwZo
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We break down the critical moments leading up to the impact, the actions taken by the flight crew, and the emergency response that followed. This video provides expert insight into the challenges pilots face in high-stress situations and what can be learned from this event.
The Interview from "The National": https://youtu.be/K9paRHkZwZo
#aviation #planecrash #emergencylanding #captainsteeeve #TorontoCrash #atc #pilotreacts #airlinesafety #flightanalysis #aviationbreakdown
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00:00All right, it's been an incredible month in aviation. So many things have happened. I didn't
00:03even get time to change. I thought right here at the airport I want to comment about what
00:07happened in Toronto. I've got some insight and what happened with the airplane. Let's start
00:12to take a look and dive into it right now. Toronto Tower, Endeavour 4819, I'm sorry.
00:21Endeavour 4819, Toronto Tower, wind 270 at 23 gusts 33, cleared to land runway 23,
00:25you might get a slight bump in the glide path, there'll be an aircraft in front of it.
00:28Cleared to land 23, Endeavour 4819.
00:33Okay, we've got Endeavour 4819. It's a CRJ 900, a very common airplane. There's a lot of them out
00:41there in service. Very, very reliable airplane. 76 people on board, four crew members, 80 folks
00:47all together. They've just been cleared for landing. They're lined up on runway 23 at Toronto
00:52Airport. The winds are gusty. They're kind of down the runway, but there's some right
00:58to left crosswind. That's going to be a factor here in a minute. Let's see what happens next.
01:03Oh, oh, oh, 4543 ground, runway 24 right now, descend and fall 7, 2993.
01:19Okay, let me pause it right there. So, we have some incredible footage from another airplane
01:24that was filming just what they thought was going to be a routine landing. It ends up being a crash
01:29landing that incredibly all 80 people walk away from. That's the really good news about all of
01:35this, but what I observe initially is this. It's a gusty day. You can tell by the cloud formations.
01:40It's just one of those days where it's kind of, the winds are unpredictable, and I think the
01:45forecast was winds gusting up to 30 knots or more. This airplane comes in. It looks like it's on a
01:51normal glide slope as it comes in, but right at the very end, and we're going to reverse this in
01:56a minute, and we're going to play it back in slow motion. I'm going to analyze it for you, but right
01:59at the very end, the airplane dips to the right, the wing strikes the ground, and the wing departs
02:05the airplane, and the airplane rolls over, and you see fire here at this point. It's going to get put
02:10out rather quickly between the snow and the fire crew getting out there in an incredibly
02:15quick time frame, but let me start it over here again, and let's go back over, and let's take a
02:20look and follow this in slow motion because I want to analyze specifically what I think caused this
02:26accident. Okay, here it comes in slow motion. The airplane is touching down. We'll stop it right there.
02:33You see on the right side of the airplane, there's a plume of snow coming up. That's not smoke.
02:39That's snow coming up, so that's the moment where the wing tip most likely touched and struck the
02:45ground. I think they're still on the runway here. They could be just slightly off. There may be a
02:51little bit of snow on the runway, and that explains how that snow flume comes up. Now, as that happens,
02:56here's what's going to happen with the end of the wing. The wing is designed to take incredible
03:00forces from the wind, but it's not really designed to twist in a twisting motion like an aluminum
03:07can would. If you took an empty aluminum can and twisted it, it would torque and fall apart rather
03:12quickly. Now, this wing is super strong, but it's not designed to do exactly what it does next.
03:17The wing tip now touches down the ground. Why did that happen? Well, there's a couple of
03:22reasons. It was a hard landing. There's no mystery about that. Now, in the final analysis,
03:28when the investigators get done doing everything, they're going to tell us exactly why that wing
03:32dipped down and touched the ground the way it did, but we can obviously see from this it did.
03:37So, it's a very hard landing, whether it was a gust of wind or it was just
03:41forced onto the runway for some reason. Once that end of that wing tip hits the ground,
03:46it's going to send a twisting motion throughout the entire wing, and the other end of the wing
03:50is attached to the airplane. So, all that kinetic energy is going to go through to the other end of
03:54the wing, and it's going to cause a twisting motion at the wing root, and that wing root is
03:59what caused that wing to come apart. Let's follow this a little bit more. Super slow. It's still
04:05smoke. Now, the fire begins to come out of the wing. The wing has obviously begun to depart from
04:11the airplane. The fuel is being let out of that wing. That's where most of the fuel is contained
04:15in both of the wings. On landing, there's going to be less fuel than there would be on takeoff,
04:20so this is good news for these guys. Everybody's contained inside that fuselage still, which is
04:25really important. A little bit more, a little bit more. Now, you see the airplane lurch up a little
04:33bit, all right? And on the far side of the airplane, you see what looks like the tail of
04:37the airplane? That's actually the left wing. It's starting to come up and look like the tail of the
04:42airplane, and as that left wing comes up, you can tell that the airplane is rolling. Normally, it
04:47wouldn't be able to roll because the right wing would keep it from doing that, so I think at this
04:51moment, what we're looking at right here is the right wing is actually detached from the airplane.
04:56This is going to turn out to be actually a good thing for the survivability of the passengers
05:01on board. Why? Because all that fuel is contained in that wing, and that fireball is going to go
05:06back with the wing and not with the fuselage. The fire is not completely out in the fuselage,
05:10but it's not nearly as bad as it could have been. Look at that left wing coming up right now,
05:19all right? The entire right wing now is gone. Look at the size of the fireball,
05:24but it's contained in that right wing, which is now disappearing behind the back of the airplane.
05:30Now, you see this rolling moment because there is no right wing to keep the centrifugal motion from
05:35the airplane going over. Here comes the left wing. That's not the tail. That's the left wing.
05:40Here it comes. People on the inside now are beginning to roll,
05:46and as that whole airplane goes over, it looks like a big fin on the top. That's still the left
05:51wing. So, as we see all that, now that airplane is going to roll all the way over, and this takes
05:57a matter of two to three seconds for all of this to happen. One of the things that takes place is
06:02that the tail of the airplane, which is normally sticking up in the air where the rudder is,
06:06it's now going to be upside down. When it goes completely upside down, it acts like a plow in
06:12the ground, or it acts like an anchor, and that's actually another good thing that happened for the
06:17folks on this airplane because as it begins to dig in, it slows the motion of that fuselage,
06:23which is wanting to tumble. It's a good thing that fuselage didn't tumble eight or nine or
06:27ten times because it might have caused a lot more injuries. As it rolls over once, the tail digs in,
06:32and it slows down to a stop. It does so in the snow and the dirt, which are all things that are
06:38going to suppress a fire. That right wing that had all the fuel in it, it's departed the airplane,
06:42and it's well behind them at this point. That's going to give them opportunity to get out of that
06:47fuselage. Remember, everybody is hanging from their their seat belts at this point, upside down.
06:52What a shock. Here you see the first videos of the outside of the airplane. You can see that that
06:57right wing of the airplane is completely off the airplane. This is an incredible shot, and the fire
07:04crews are already out there. This is about 90 seconds after the crash. The fire crews got out
07:09there immediately. They're blowing now this foam agent on top of the fire, and you can see how
07:17strong the wind is. Now, that wind direction that's blowing it over the fuselage that way
07:22was actually the direction that was coming that impacted that right wing when it dipped down,
07:26and it touched the runway, and it began that twisting moment. So, having said that, the winds
07:32were from right to left. They were really strong when these guys touched down. Now, let me comment
07:37on one thing here. These people did not expect to be out in the snow and the blowing cold. They
07:43expected to be at the terminal about this time, greeting their friends and their family. So,
07:49some of them are dressed for it. Some of them are not. I want to talk to you directly about safety
07:53on an airplane. Folks, when you get on an airplane, think about this for a second. I don't want you
07:58to get scared. There's 10,000 takeoffs and landings a day, and this is a really safe way to go, but
08:05having said that, instead of dressing for your vacation destination in flip-flops and a halter
08:10top and shorts, dress to get out of the airplane in an emergency if you have to. Wear something
08:16that laces up over your feet. Wear jeans. Wear cotton. Wear a long sleeve. Wear something that
08:21you can get out of the airplane in an emergency. These people needed to be dressed right. Of course,
08:26they were going to Toronto, so they're going to be dressed warmer, but imagine if they had been
08:29going to Bermuda or the Bahamas, what they would have been dressed like trying to get out of the
08:34airplane in an emergency. One of the things that you see with the passengers is they don't know
08:38where to go because the flight attendants are all back on the airplane helping everybody get off.
08:42There's nobody really in charge, so they're going to kind of tend to wander. It's like a herd of
08:46cats all over the place. Eventually, the fire crew is probably going to get them in a safe location,
08:53but they need to be careful that they don't get run over by a fire truck. We made our descent
08:57and made touchdown. It was just a very forceful event where all of a sudden everything just kind
09:05of went sideways, and then the next thing I know is kind of a blink and I'm upside down.
09:11Okay, I want to talk about this guy for a minute. This is an incredible moment in life where this
09:16guy gets interviewed within probably minutes after a near-death experience. I'm not a big fan
09:22of the media sticking a microphone in some grieving widow's face. I don't like that.
09:28I don't think it's fair or kind or just. This is different. This guy didn't lose anybody. He just
09:35went through a near-death experience himself, and you're getting the fresh, raw response on his part
09:41of what he's thinking and what he's feeling. There's a longer interview with him. It's about
09:46eight minutes long. I'm going to do a comment on that longer interview because I listened to the
09:51whole thing, and it was absolutely fascinating to me. So, we're going to try to get that out
09:54to you tomorrow with my commentary on the video, so look for that to come next. But right now,
09:59let's finish this video and this guy's commentary because it's incredible what these people went
10:04through. Okay, so you see the flight attendant on the inside of the airplane. She's helping
10:17people get off. Folks, let me make a comment right here. We debated whether to show this clip.
10:24Why? Because I don't want to encourage anybody in an emergency to get their phone out and video
10:29the thing, all right? The last thing you need to do is video it, but you can see the flight attendant
10:34in the airplane in harm's way, right, kind of sacrificing her own safety to get the passengers
10:41off. These are highly trained professionals doing a terrific job. You got a couple of men,
10:45able-bodied guys on the outside being the helpers to help get everybody off. This is an all-hands
10:50process. That longer interview with that passenger, he talks about how everybody, the best
10:56in everybody, comes out in an emergency like this. Everybody just looks around to see
11:00who else they can help, and I'm here to tell you that is super refreshing
11:05in a day and age where there's just a lot of ugly out there in the public square.
11:10In this emergency, everybody looks to help everybody else out, and again,
11:14we'll try to get that longer video to you, but look at the flight attendant. Excellent professional.
11:17Wow. Would you be in shock? I'd be in shock. Unbelievable. Looking back on this. All right,
11:25so here's what I think happened. I think they came in on a normal landing. For some reason,
11:32the landing ended up being a harder than, much harder than normal landing. It could have been
11:37due to a gust of wind. It could have been some other factors. I don't know if they blew up
11:41or something like that, but I think they came in on a normal landing, and I don't know if they
11:45it could have been some other factors. I don't know if they blew a tire on landing. Whatever it
11:49was, that wing tip on the right side dipped down far enough that it impacted the ground. As soon
11:54as it did, it dug in. When it dug in, there was a twisting moment. It twisted it off the fuselage,
11:59which actually ended up being good for the passengers on the inside because the fireball
12:03that emanates next is now separating from the airplane as a centrifugal motion of the fuselage
12:08in that left wing. Bring it up and over, then the tail of the airplane digs in like a plow,
12:13brings it to a full stop in the middle of the snow, and the ice, and the wind, and all of those
12:18things, and the dirt, and all those things were factors that would put out a fire, not encourage
12:22a fire, giving the fire trucks 60 to 90 seconds to get there. Everybody goes into motion. You can
12:29hear ATC talking to the fire people. They give them clearance to get out to the runway or out to
12:33the crash immediately. They have to clear out all the other airplanes to give them space to do that,
12:37but they get out there, highly trained first responders, highly trained air crew, and it
12:43turns out to be a really, really terrific outcome and something that you can clearly see could have
12:48been a really tragic outcome, and we've had a lot of, a fair amount of tragic in the last month. It's
12:53nice to have something that had actually a good outcome that's aviation related, although the
12:59images are not ones that we want to see on a daily basis. So that's my analysis on it, folks.
13:05Go back, look over it again if you need to. This one really turned out to have a happy ending at
13:10the end. I think 17 people went to the hospital, they said, with minor injuries, not even any
13:14critical injuries in this one, and I'm looking forward to doing some more analysis on this
13:20in the days to come. So I'm here to tell you, you're going to ask, is flying still safe? Yes,
13:26it's still safe. I just flew back from London myself, and I want to reassure you, 10,000 plus
13:32takeoffs and landings a day, all these things happen in a short period of time, I know, but
13:37again, folks, it's the safest way to travel. You've got highly trained professionals at the helm,
13:43so you can rest assured it's okay to travel, and it's okay to fly. Now you know. I'm Captain Steve,
13:49and I'll keep you updated on what I think is going to happen next with this particular incident.
13:55Thanks for tuning in.