Air France A340 crash in Toronto

phobiaphobe · 08-02-2005, 4:54 PM

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/natio...ane050802.html

This is happening as we speak...

Anyone in Toronto know more about this?

ConqSoft · 08-02-2005, 5:36 PM

Witnesses say it was struck by lightning as it was rolling down the runway during landing.

Northern RR · 08-02-2005, 5:38 PM

This is the first I have heard of it, but I can just imagine what it has done to normally crappy traffic in that area to begin with...how would you like to see a BIG plane(on fire none the less) comeing towards you while driving your car

Hope every one is OK.

ConqSoft · 08-02-2005, 5:41 PM

Live video feed: http://www.wral.com/video/4800834/detail.html

phobiaphobe · 08-02-2005, 5:45 PM

Ironic that it's the opposite lanes that are deadlocked from the rubberneckers.

phobiaphobe · 08-02-2005, 5:52 PM

http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/A...hub=TopStories

looks like a good number of the passengers survived.

ConqSoft · 08-02-2005, 6:23 PM

CNN says: "All passengers survive after an Air France jet overruns a Toronto, Canada, runway and bursts into flames, officials said."

phobiaphobe · 08-02-2005, 6:30 PM

Thank god. What a ride that must have been.

sheepofblue · 08-02-2005, 6:33 PM

Thanks for this encouraging post while I am waiting to get on an airplane

DUX · 08-02-2005, 7:32 PM

I would really like to read the report and see why they were shooting the approach in the first place, but am very glad to see that all survived.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050802/...da_plane_crash

DUX · 08-02-2005, 7:33 PM

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Originally Posted by sheepofblue

Thanks for this encouraging post while I am waiting to get on an airplane

Don't worry sheep. I'm not flying today.

asiliat · 08-02-2005, 10:00 PM

Witnesses say that survivors in their panic ran TOWARDS HWY 401 (our major highway here).

Surviving a plane crash only to be run over by some dude in a Hyundai would kinda suck.

Zeeman · 08-03-2005, 5:27 AM

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Originally Posted by asiliat

Witnesses say that survivors in their panic ran TOWARDS HWY 401 (our major highway here).

Surviving a plane crash only to be run over by some dude in a Hyundai would kinda suck.

After all that, I wouldn't want to deal with customs either...

Z...

phobiaphobe · 08-03-2005, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Zeeman

After all that, I wouldn't want to deal with customs either...

Z...

Not like they had any luggage to go through.

Kuss929 · 08-03-2005, 12:44 PM

I called my girlfriend since she works 3 blocks from that runway and she said that the news was not dramatic at all. She told me that a plane slide off the end and that was all. Reading the news post online though made it seem much worst.

ND4SPD · 08-03-2005, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Kuss929

I called my girlfriend since she works 3 blocks from that runway and she said that the news was not dramatic at all. She told me that a plane slide off the end and that was all. Reading the news post online though made it seem much worst.

Does that surprise you?

phobiaphobe · 08-03-2005, 12:47 PM

I'd say that a passenger jet burning in the ditch is pretty dramatic.

Kuss929 · 08-03-2005, 1:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ND4SPD

Does that surprise you?

Not entirely however there was a subway scare last week in Toronto also that never made it to headlines. It turned out to not be anything real dramatic however lesser incidences are breaking news.

soon2b954 · 08-03-2005, 1:45 PM

If the plane had over shot the runway any further then it did it might have ended up on N America's busiest highways. Would not have been a pretty sight.