Air Canada A320 Crash at YHZ

FlyingScot said:
If you were British, you'd say it "exited" the runway.
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Sounds as if the trouble started before it "entered" the runway. Low, clips things including the power pole that appears to be well right of the RWY center line before the electric line goes underground off the approach zone, A-320 gets a bad case of road-rash climbing up the rocky area before the RWY itself,...

Oops. Bent decision-making leads to bent-parts plane.
 
typhoonpilot said:
Oh, I'd call that a crash all right. :)
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Oh come on now, it's not THAT bad........part of the tail is still intact!


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Daytime photos are uploaded to the TSBs flikr, looks like more than just a 'hard landing' as the media says. Parts of runway lights imbedded in the aircraft. People on Twitter and Facebook are thanking the crew and Air Canada for a safe outcome of the incident.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tsbcanada

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"An Air Canada Airbus A320-200, registration C-FTJP performing flight AC-624 (dep Mar 28th) from Toronto,ON to Halifax,NS (Canada) with 133 passengers and 5 crew, was on approach to Halifax's runway 05 at about 00:07L (03:07Z) when the aircraft touched down short of and below the runway threshold, clipped a powerline and approach light about 250 meters short of the runway, climbed the embankment up to the runway level and came to a stop past the threshold of the runway near taxiway B about 300 meters down the runway. The aircraft was evacuated. 23 people received injuries and were taken to a hospital, the aircraft sustained substantial damage (all landing gear collapsed, left hand engine separated, wing damaged, horizontal stabilizer damaged).

The aircraft had been holding west of Halifax prior to commencing the approach waiting for weather (visibility) to improve."

http://avherald.com/h?article=483e7337&opt=4097

On a serious note, hope the injured pax will recover and also hope none of them are injured seriously.
 
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FloridaLarry said:
FlyingScot said:

Sounds as if the trouble started before it "entered" the runway. Low, clips things including the power pole that appears to be well right of the RWY center line before the electric line goes underground off the approach zone, A-320 gets a bad case of road-rash climbing up the rocky area before the RWY itself,...

Oops. Bent decision-making leads to bent-parts plane.
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Yikes, here's me thinking it was just gonna be like the DAL NYC accident where they had the bad luck to be the ones who found out that the braking action had gone to nil.
 
A Life Aloft said:
"An Air Canada Airbus A320-200, registration C-FTJP performing flight AC-624 (dep Mar 28th) from Toronto,ON to Halifax,NS (Canada) with 133 passengers and 5 crew, was on approach to Halifax's runway 05 at about 00:07L (03:07Z) when the aircraft touched down short of and below the runway threshold, clipped a powerline and approach light about 250 meters short of the runway, climbed the embankment up to the runway level and came to a stop past the threshold of the runway near taxiway B about 300 meters down the runway. The aircraft was evacuated. 23 people received injuries and were taken to a hospital, the aircraft sustained substantial damage (all landing gear collapsed, left hand engine separated, wing damaged, horizontal stabilizer damaged).

On a serious note, hope the injured pax will recover and also hope none of them are injured seriously.
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And no apparent post-crash fire, at least none of any consequence, after that. Pretty amazing.
 
If I remember correctly (used to go to YHZ all the time) RWY 5 didn't have an ILS....LOC definitely, perhaps a GPS?

I'm interested in hearing which approach they used. Could be a classic case of non-precision approach gone bad, initial reports of landing short...
 
Glad everyone is reported to be alive, hopefully those who suffered injuries are only minor. Stay safe out there!
 
A Life Aloft said:
"An Air Canada Airbus A320-200, registration C-FTJP performing flight AC-624 (dep Mar 28th) from Toronto,ON to Halifax,NS (Canada) with 133 passengers and 5 crew, was on approach to Halifax's runway 05 at about 00:07L (03:07Z) when the aircraft touched down short of and below the runway threshold, clipped a powerline and approach light about 250 meters short of the runway, climbed the embankment up to the runway level and came to a stop past the threshold of the runway near taxiway B about 300 meters down the runway. The aircraft was evacuated. 23 people received injuries and were taken to a hospital, the aircraft sustained substantial damage (all landing gear collapsed, left hand engine separated, wing damaged, horizontal stabilizer damaged).

The aircraft had been holding west of Halifax prior to commencing the approach waiting for weather (visibility) to improve."

http://avherald.com/h?article=483e7337&opt=4097

On a serious note, hope the injured pax will recover and also hope none of them are injured seriously.
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Wow. Glad there were no fatalities here. This could have turned out really bad for the people on board. Thinking of-course of UPS 1354 or the Polish president's plane crash.
 
Not being permitted to comment on this is driving me freaking crazy

In any case, glad everyone got out ok... Just a piece of metal lost.

Lots of E190s in their fleet plans coming down the pipe
 
MikeD said:
And no apparent post-crash fire, at least none of any consequence, after that. Pretty amazing.
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After reading what really occurred, surprised the hell outta me, also. Talk about lucky. This could have turned out far, far worse.
 
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