Plane crash injures 18—weather excuse or corporate cover-up
By Lynn, Editor-in-Chief, Wecu Media | February 18, 2025
A Delta Air Lines plane flipped upside down landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport yesterday, February 17, 2025, at 2:15 PM ET—76 passengers and 4 crew dangling like bats, 18 injured, and miraculously, no deaths. The official line? “Wintry conditions” after a weekend snowstorm. But the runway was dry, the crosswinds debatable, and X is screaming foul play. Was this a freak accident—or a safety scandal Delta’s praying you won’t notice?
Flight DL4819, a CRJ900 jet from Minneapolis, hit the tarmac hard, spun sideways, and erupted in a fireball before settling belly-up. First responders pulled off a “textbook” rescue—kudos to them—but the story’s already wobbling. Toronto Fire Chief Todd Aitken says no crosswinds, runway clear. Yet pilots on X clocked gusts at 19 knots (22 mph), some say up to 40 mph. Passengers like John Nelson saw “a big fireball” and smelled jet fuel hours later. So why the flip? Weather’s the easy scapegoat, but the truth might be uglier.
X users aren’t buying it. “Delta’s maintenance is a joke,” one posts, while another digs up the CRJ900’s age—16 years old, built by Bombardier, now Mitsubishi’s problem. Mechanical failure rumors swirl—flap actuator issues, landing gear glitches—none confirmed, but Delta’s tight-lipped beyond CEO Ed Bastian’s “hearts are with you” X post at 5:03 PM yesterday.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is on it, with U.S. NTSB backup, promising a preliminary report in 30 days. Don’t hold your breath—aviation probes love a slow drip.
Here’s where Wecu smells smoke: Delta’s safety record isn’t spotless—remember the 2024 engine scare out of Atlanta?—and this crash lands amid a rash of air disasters (DC midair, Philly Learjet, Alaska 10-dead). Are corners being cut? The injured—two adults, one child critical but stable—deserve more than platitudes. X’s trending #DeltaDisaster is a cry for answers: Why’s a plane upside down if conditions were “fine”? We C U want the truth, not a corporate snow job.
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