These Videos of the Plane Crash in Toronto are WILD
Ordinarily we're not the website that practices the "If it bleeds, it leads" theory of journalism. Especially not when two passengers aboard this Delta flight are in critical condition. But sometimes you have no choice but to go where the news leads you. And right now it's this insane footage:
The same video, but zoomed in:
Here it is from a worse angle:
From inside the plane in the immediate aftermath:
The evacuation from a passenger's perspective:
Now, some are pointing out how handsy this flight attendant got with the lady in the yoga pants. But speaking for me personally, if I'm less than a minute from touchdown, getting ready to text my ride to say I've landed and thinking about how fast I can grab by carry on and get out of there, only to have my literal world turn literally upside down, the nice professional who's staying back getting the rest of us off the aircraft safely before she saves herself can get as familiar as she deems it necessary.
Just like with the mid-air collision over Reagan Airport a couple of weeks ago, now seems like the perfect time to advise people not to jump to conclusions. But even as I type those words I know what a fool's errand it is. Asking keyboard warriors to take their time and let the facts come out is like standing on the beach telling the tide not to come in. As we speak I'm sure there are guys who've barely ever been on a plane convinced they're Chuck Yeager, and teaching us everything we don't need to know about air frames, wind shears, approach vectors and pilot errors. But I still suggest waiting to hear from the people who know what they're talking about. Even though that's a concept from a bygone era, I think it still works best for everybody.
I'll just add one more thought. A crash like this not only doesn't discourage me from air travel, it has the opposite effect. The reason this thing is newsworthy is because it's so rare. All day every day the skies are filled with passenger jets, shuttling hundreds of thousands of people around the globe every minute. But we obsess over every accident, every crash, every emergency landing, and yes, every jet that flips over on impact. And counter-intuitive as it sounds, we pay attention precisely because it's so rare. If it happened as often as car rollovers that leave two people in critical condition, there'd be no time for anything else on the news. Hopefully those two pull through, the Canadian version of the FAA figures out what caused it, takes preventative measures and we never see more videos like this. But in the meantime, I'd still rather be up there where it's safe than down here on the roads.
