Air Canada plane makes emergency landing at Pearson after reports of falling debris

[Electric Monk]

Source: Toronto Star

An Air Canada flight had to conduct an emergency landing Monday afternoon after debris reportedly fell from the plane.

Peel Regional Police and Emergency Medical Services are on scene at Pearson International Airport where the aircraft made an emergency landing around 4 p.m.

Reports of property damage came in around 3:45 p.m. It is not clear yet where the debris landed or if there are any injuries, but ambulances are on standby.

More to come.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1201852--air-canada-plane-makes-emergency-landing-at-pearson-after-reports-of-falling-debris

[spiderpig]

1. Reminds me of "blue ice" dropping from AA flights in the 80s

Lav leaks.

Then there was the engine that fell off around San Diego - supposedly due to blue accumulating on the fuselage, blowing back and knocking off the MD80 engine.

[EFerrari]

2. In 1989 or so my ex and my son were on a Hawaii bound flight out of SFO

and they lost an engine over Daly City. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. They were put up in a hotel and got on another flight the next day.

[spiderpig]

4. It's a frightening thing, because you're completely unable to respond for yourself

Equipment failures happen. I hired on at AA two months after the infamous 1979 DC10 crash in Chicago where an engine fell off due to what they decided was failure of the bolts due to reinstallation procedures. Nearly 300 people died.

I worked with two people who were on duty at ORD at the time. One told me he had to throw out the suit he and shoes he was wearing because of the odor of the burning crash site. The other just refused to talk about it.

Not that the vast majority of airline workers don't try to do their best (current greedy top management excluded), but any accident leaves families and workers scarred forever.

[EFerrari]

6. Those poor people. n/t

[longship]

3. Hope all are okay.

But maybe we now know where all that missing luggage goes.

[tawadi]

5. No injuries reported, luckily

A few damaged automobiles though. Here's a link.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/28/travel/canada-airplane-debris