Delta plane flips on landing at Toronto airport, injuring 18

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Someday airports will learn and start heating runways.

Deicing works but not well enough as we can see.

Someday airports will learn and start heating runways.

Sigh. Where is all the energy to do this coming from and how much does it add to your airline ticket? Snow melting cables adds $10 - $25 per square foot to the cost of the concrete or asphalt paving. After installation even something as small as a driveway cost around $120 - $250 month to heat. Scale all this up to the size of an international airport along with maintenance costs which are also going to be extensive and you start to see why airports are not heating runways.

It is what it looks like, an upside down Delta jet on the runway in Toronto. How in the heck did that happen? It's still in one piece!!!

The official story: The plane had a failure of the flaps. It therefore had to land at a high speed. Just before touching down it tilted hard right and ripped the right wing off. Then, the lift from the left wing caused it to roll upside down on the runway.

Essentially then nothing to do with ice on the runway. Seemed from the videos to burst into flames at touchdown.

More like a hard undercarriage-breaking landing in strong cross-winds.