V-Flyer

This looks awfull:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4740381.stm

No news on how many were onboard.

Milliemoo

More here from the CBC... no news on injuries yet
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national ... 50802.html

This is bad. I hope there are survivors.

horrible news.

hope everyone is okay.

Its the same type of A340 we operate

This looks bad, unusual tho I think that a plane has ended up in such a bad state after actually landing and then skiding. I am not an authority on this, but the last time I can remember anything similar was the manchester fire (I know this was pre-take off)

Paul

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050802/ap_ ... lane_crash

says pax were seen climbing from the plane,this is horrible,I just hope they all got out

Reports on the BBC suggest the number of survivors is high.

Dean

reuters: all survived

All passengers survived the crash...apparently the plane was struck by lightening. The A340 has an excellent safety record, I don't think it will be tainted even after this crash landing.

Originally posted by easygoingeezer
reuters: all survived

yep, now confirmed by Air France too.

that is amazing,looking at the pic's you would figure a high number of deaths,well glad im wrong on that one.

with news being what it is today it makes a welcome change to see a news story end with a sigh of relief, hope the cabin crew get recognised for their skill in helping the passengers to safety.

Apparently there was hail, wonder if it was a downdraught

Wow, I'm both amazed and relieved. Well done to the emergency services, I guess!

(Ironically, I booked flights through YYZ today) Only "up to 200 people on board" sounds like a light load for an A340 though.

Originally posted by preiffer
Wow, I'm both amazed and relieved. Well done to the emergency services, I guess!

(Ironically, I booked flights through YYZ today) Only "up to 200 people on board" sounds like a light load for an A340 though.

Apparently 309 people were on board - original estimates of 200 were a bit off.

edited : 297 pax + 12 crew

Rich.

Just been reading on this. Really glad all ok.

All are OK...........according to CBC News
Click here for link.

{preiffer - edited to clean up link/formatting}

I hope that all those frequent flyers who think they look cool if they do not watch the saftey briefing now put down the paper and take notice.

Thank God nobody was killed.

Milliemoo

The crew should be congratulated on working well and ensuring that no one was hurt in the emergency.

Cheers,
VS045

Spookily, you can use the ATC link in the "live ATC" topic to log on to the Tornoto ATC, and then specify yesterday at 16:00 local for a 30 minute period - you even get a weather radar map of the area.

You can hear ATC diverting people, commenting on the fact that "a plane has slid off the end of the runway". They're all very calm and collected on the ATC, however right after it happens you can hear shouting in the background as the s**t hits the fan.

Given no one was injured I thought I'd post this.

It just goes to show that modern planes are safer crashing than their older counterparts

I for one cannot remember a plane crash/fire where all pax and crew survived!

Well done to all crew/emergency services involved

Quite a miracle nobody was hurt badly after looking at the video and pictures, I never realised the A340 had such a good safety record.

I have just read a PAX report from this incident:

'At some point the wing was off. The oxygen masks never came down. The plane was filling up with smoke.'

She said one of the flight attendants tried to calm passengers and tell them that everything was OK.

'And yet the plane was on fire and smoke pouring in. I don't like to criticise, but the staff did not seem helpful or prepared.'

So that report doesn't bode well for the crew. I guess all this happened though in split seconds. So hard to imagine being in that situation, but also so thankful that everyone was ok physically.

Matt

I'm sure some of the other 296 pax would disagree!

At the end of the day the crew got every one out safely