You guys hear about the crash? The daily flight from Paris to Toronto crashed in Toronto today.
It was an Airbus A340. To tell you the truth, I don't understand why it was even allowed to attempt to land. We had severe thunderstorms the whole afternoon with gusty winds. Furthermore Pearson (our main airport) had issued a red alert around lunchtime, so there was no ground staff anyway!
The plane landed, but then skidded off the runway into the forest/ravine. It's lucky that it went into the ravine, because past the ravine is highway 401, the busiest highway in Canada.
Anyway, Pearson crews apparently got there in a record time of under 1 minute, and everybody was evacuated. There were only 12 minor injuries, no deaths out of the 297 passengers and 12 crew.
A happy ending indeed, however I do wonder how this happened. According to a passenger, the electricity in the airplane went off the second it touched down. Anyway, thought I'd give you guys a heads up.
