Air Canada AC624 crash lands in Halifax, at least 23 sent to hospital

[bigworld]

Source: CBC

New photos of an Air Canada plane that crash landed at Halifax Stanfield International Airport early Sunday morning, sending at least 23 people to hospital, show significant damage to the nose and wing of the aircraft.

Flight AC624 from Toronto to Halifax "took a very hard landing" and skidded off the runway at approximately 12:35 a.m. AT," said Peter Spurway, a spokesman for the Halifax Stanfield International Airport.

"Right now, we have some minor injuries. Nothing that is deemed to be life threatening," he said.

In a tweet, Air Canada says 18 of 23 passengers have been released from hospital.

Airport officials put the number of people sent to hospital higher, at 25

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/air-canada-ac624-crash-lands-in-halifax-at-least-23-sent-to-hospital-1.3013979

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Seems to have landed on its belly without any landing gear. Ouch.

http://i.cbc.ca/1.3014029.1427631251!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/the-plane-was-badly-damaged-in-the-crash.jpg

[hlthe2b]

1. Injuries: "Nothing that is deemed to be life threatening"--- thankfully....

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Bad week for A320's...

None of it the plane's fault.

[bigworld]

3. Indeed. There are over 6100 of these in service worldwide

So odds are at least some will come down from time to time!

Total workhorse, totally reliable aircraft.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Yep! She certainly did her job back in 2009:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Seems more like it crashed on landing versus crash landed.

[NutmegYankee]

6. Most crashes are at take off and landing.

Only 12% of air crashes happen during the cruising to destination phase.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. I think about that every time I do a run-up and checklist before take off.

And before I set up an approach and do my pre landing checklist.

[NutmegYankee]

8. What do you fly?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. I fly the heavy iron.

C172

[Major Nikon]

11. That and preplaning every single flight goes a long way towards mitigating risk

You'd be surprised (or maybe you won't) by how many pilots just hop in and take off. Many get away with it. Some wind up as a statistic.

[YOHABLO]

10. Not an expert, but it would seem that the cause was weather related.

[appalachiablue]

12. CNN eve news showed the big plane w/o any landing gear down after landing on the runway;

one wing was fairly messed up. That was a hard, serious hit to land on the belly, super plane. Several passengers interviewed were grateful, had a few bumps and said the landing was something. It looked like there was snow there too. Two plane incidents this close, well the other was a horror.

[Ghost Dog]

13. For sake of clarity:

"Air Canada AC624 touched down 335 metres short of runway... and smashed through an antenna array before finally skidding to a stop...The aircraft lost all its landing gear when it made contact with the antenna array..."

- from 1st link in OP. Reading sometimes aids comprehension?