Toronto plane crash and FAA layoffs add to air safety concerns
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Investigators are still trying to determine what caused a dramatic Delta Airlines regional jet crash in Toronto yesterday. |
| 0:08.0 | Stunning new video shows how the plane flipped over and caught on fire at Pearson Airport. |
| 0:14.0 | All 80 passengers survived. 21 people were injured, including two who remain hospitalized. |
| 0:20.0 | Air traffic controllers warned pilots of winds up to 38 miles per hour just before the plane attempted to land. It is the latest in a string of significant accidents this year, four in less than a month, including that fatal mid-air collision in Washington, D.C., between a Black Hawk helicopter and a jet that killed 67 people. |
| 0:39.2 | For more on all of this, I'm joined by David Shepardson of Reuters. David, good to see you. Thanks for |
| 0:43.7 | being here. Thanks having me. So let's just start with this Toronto crash. What do you take away from |
| 0:47.7 | the latest information we've gotten from officials? Do they have any idea about the cause? |
| 0:52.4 | So we do know that the investigators from Canada have recovered the flight data recorder, |
| 0:57.2 | the cockpit voice recorder. |
| 0:58.7 | Those are going to be read and analyzed. |
| 1:00.9 | We should get more information about what happened in those final moments. |
| 1:04.9 | But it's clear investigators are going to focus on the actions of the pilot. |
| 1:08.6 | Not that they necessarily didn't think wrong, but they, as you said, were dealing with severe |
| 1:12.1 | crosswinds. |
| 1:13.2 | And the one question that is certainly in the minds of experts is, was the plane flaring? |
| 1:19.0 | That means when you land, there's a little bit of a pitch up, right, to sort of gently |
| 1:23.1 | land on the ground. |
| 1:24.4 | And from the videos, it appears the plane was not flaring like a normal plane would. |
| 1:29.3 | That could have been because of the pilot trying to deal with these winds, or perhaps the wind |
| 1:33.8 | wasn't there at the moment of landing that they thought. So that's one key question. What happened |
| 1:39.6 | and why did it appear that the plane landed at such a high rate of speed? The video is just so remarkable. |
| 1:45.0 | I know people are taking notice of it, how it landed upside down, but also the fact that |
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