Delta plane's landing gear collapsed during Toronto crash-landing, investigators say

The Delta Air Lines level that landed upside down successful Toronto successful February suffered a landing cogwheel illness arsenic it made interaction with the runway, according to a caller report.

Investigators released a preliminary study connected the clang connected Thursday, saying the pitchy had descended astatine a precocious complaint of speed, triggering a information alarm to spell disconnected successful the cockpit conscionable 2.6 seconds earlier landing. The plane's close main landing cogwheel collapsed connected interaction with the runway.

"At touchdown, the pursuing occurred: the side-stay that is attached to the close [main landing gear] fractured, the landing cogwheel folded into the retracted position, the helping basal fractured betwixt the fuselage and the landing gear, and the helping detached from the fuselage, releasing a unreality of pitchy fuel, which caught fire," the study stated.

"The nonstop series of these events is inactive to beryllium determined by further introspection of the fracture surfaces," it clarified.

TORONTO PLANE CRASH TIMELINE: DELTA FLIGHT FROM MINNEAPOLIS FLIPS UPSIDE DOWN WHILE ATTEMPTING TO LAND

Photo divided showing the country of a Delta Air Lines level clang astatine Toronto Pearson International Airport connected Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (Reuters/Cole Burston)

Miraculously, each 80 passengers and unit aboard the Delta formation survived the crash, though dozens suffered immoderate level of injury.

DELTA OFFERS PAYMENT TO VICTIMS AMID INVESTIGATION OF PLANE THAT FLIPPED UPSIDE DOWN

Multiple investigations into the clang are inactive ongoing, but Delta has pushed backmost against online rumors and "misleading assertions" astir the unit aboard Flight 4819, operated by its subsidiary Endeavor Air.

Passengers evacuate a Delta Air Lines level aft it crashed into the runway of Toronto Pearson International Airport successful Mississauga, Ontario, Canada connected Feb. 17, 2025. (Nate Richie)

The flight’s skipper was hired successful October 2007 by Mesaba Airlines and served arsenic an progressive work skipper and successful aviator grooming and information capacities, the hose said. Mesaba Airlines merged with Pinnacle Airlines successful 2012, starring to the instauration of Endeavor Air.

"Assertions that helium failed grooming events are false. Assertions that helium failed to travel into a aviator presumption astatine Delta Air Lines owed to grooming failures are besides false," the hose said successful a connection Thursday.

A Delta Air Lines level is seen upside down aft it crashed into the runway of Toronto Pearson International Airport successful Mississauga, Ontario, Canada connected Feb. 17, 2025. (Nate Richie)

Delta besides said that some the skipper and archetypal serviceman are "qualified and FAA certified for their positions."

Shortly aft the crash, Delta announced that it would beryllium offering $30,000 to each of the victims aboard formation 4819, including 76 passengers and 4 unit members. 

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The payments person "no strings attached," a spokesperson for the hose told FOX Business, meaning that passengers who judge the $30,000 could perchance inactive instrumentality ineligible action.

Fox News' Rachel Wolf contributed to this report