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Re:Toronto's Pearson airport responding to emergency involvi... by gnatman on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:20AM (#43086616)
There’s a video posted elsewhere in this discussion [0].

Looks like the plane landed incredibly hard and the gear buckled. Extreme wind shear?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1is1qoy/video_of_...

Re:Toronto's Pearson airport responding to emergency involvi... by treyd on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:48AM (#43086752)
That post was removed by the /r/aviation mods so (at least on mobile) it can't be viewed directly on the new UI. But if you switch to old.reddit.com it's still there.
Re:Toronto's Pearson airport responding to emergency involvi... by 1659447091 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:10AM (#43086856)
> Looks like the plane landed incredibly hard and the gear buckled. Extreme wind shear?

Quality is not good enough to tell for sure, but to me, looks like wind shear causing a tail strike followed by gear buckling

the Navy pilot jokes showed up fast in that thread

Re:Toronto's Pearson airport responding to emergency involvi... by blahlabs on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:45AM (#43086742)
That link seems to have been taken down by reddit mods now.
Re:Toronto's Pearson airport responding to emergency involvi... by DidYaWipe on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:36AM (#43086703)
Thanks for the link.

Yes, that's technically video I guess, but it's trash and doesn't look like the camera was set up to capture takeoffs and landings. More like a utility shed and road... at '90s webcam frame rates and quality.

Re:Toronto's Pearson airport responding to emergency involvi... by Arainach on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:39AM (#43087014)
Any such cameras would have to be operating in a full range of weather, temperature, and lighting conditions, and would need to have power/data infrastructure run out to it around/under runways. Plus you'd need dozens of the things, all of the networking infrastructure to support them.....this isn't going to come out looking like Hollywood. Have you ever worked with security cameras or footage anywhere?
Re:Toronto's Pearson airport responding to emergency involvi... by DidYaWipe on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:18AM (#43086888)
Hahah, wow, who was offended by those easily-verified observations?
Re:Toronto's Pearson airport responding to emergency involvi... by prododev on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:36AM (#43086993)
They're obvious hyperbole complaining about how you can't immediately have access to high res, high frame rate footage of a disaster with casualties.

Maybe people think you are kind of creepy for being so insistent (and hyperbolically so)?

Re:Toronto's Pearson airport responding to emergency involvi... by DidYaWipe on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @08:12PM (#43097351)
What are you talking about? I merely criticized THIS shitty footage, which is so poor that you can't tell what happened to the plane. Useless.

Maybe you're replying to the wrong person. Otherwise, the only hyperbolic statement is your own.