Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 **FLIPS**

hey everyone me Kevin here just saw the

reports of Delta fight

4819 from Minneapolis into Toronto

flipping on its head we need to talk

about what happened here first of all

it's a miracle that nobody has died one

person is in critical condition this is

also why it's very important to wear

your seat Bel on a landing but the plane

flipped upside down we're in

Toronto we just

landed our plane press it's upside

down fire on

sight upside down

everybody most people appear to be okay

we're all getting off some smoke going

on in snowy Runway conditions and in the

wind we're going to talk about the wind

in just a moment but the plane flipped

upside down the wing broke off now you

might know not know this about Aviation

and that's okay

but the wings are really

important because that's where your fuel

is got a lot of fuel on here that one's

topped off so when that snaps off the

fuel leaks out and it usually doesn't

take a lot of sparking especially when

you've got uh this is actually carbon

fiber uh but uh when you have a metal

like an aluminum fuselodge that's

skidding across the runway it usually

ignites the fuel that's spilling

everywhere uh this uh instead is kind of

like the Titan

submersible anyway uh so talking about

the um this Delta flight what's

remarkable is that based on the early

information we have we don't know what

happened but we know this was a

crj900 that has a maximum crosswind

component reported of 27 knots some say

you might be able to go up to a 35 knot

maximum crosswind configuration or or

know performance capability so in other

words if you have winds pushing the

plane from the side at more than uh 27

to 35 knots let's go 27 to be safe you

run the risk of the plane losing its

ability to stay upright in fact when you

taxi planes uh you will actually usually

uh conduct uh wind Corrections while

you're on the taxi way because you don't

want to flip that's exactly what you

don't want so if you hop in here uh and

got a crosswind I might actually move uh

you know my my Joys Stick or yok or

whatever you have uh and dive away from

the wind we say because we're trying not

to get the plane flipped so in training

you actually taught uh about diving away

from the wind because it this this does

happen this is a real issue so what at

this point obviously is speculation as

to what happened but what could have

happened like how can a plane flip uh or

just get lifted up to the point where it

flips over this is just

speculation but here are the facts and

I'll give you the speculation part we

know this was a snowy Runway so imagine

snowy Runway you got storms coming in

there were rumors maybe they're true

that uh flights into the same airport

were canceled the day before because of

the conditions of the wind so it's snowy

which means you've got a slippery runway

which means if you touch down maybe a

little late or you tap on those brakes

that part speculation tap on those

brakes a little but too hard just like a

car you're going to lock up these

brakes planes have brakes as well that

have reverse thrusters so even on a jet

engine with a reverse Thruster uh you're

just pushing the plane the reverse

thrusters are pushing the plane down

onto the runway to get more breaking

traction that's what the point of the

reverse thrusters is they don't actually

thrust in Reverse they actually thrust

up which is probably not the best name

for it but anyway uh so let's say you

apply too much bra and and you slipped

and you start slipping a risk that can

happen this is the speculation part I

want to be clear we have to be

respectful the people that injured uh

and and this I mean the airport shut

down now this is a major incident and

it's coming at a crazy time in aviation

if you touch down and you start sliding

something else that could happen is you

could start losing directional control

of the plane so if you're on that Runway

Center Line and you start slipping off

to the side you could try to correct

with Rudder but if you're already locked

up uh and you're slipping to where

you're potentially going to go off this

side of the runway which it doesn't look

like is what happened here then you

might try to correct back but the

problem with that is a quick correction

back could lead to the unfortunate case

where if you correct back now you're

actually leaning into more of a

crosswind and you're getting more of a

direct crosswind that could then

potentially flip you so think about that

for a moment picture this planes going

straight you land oh no we're veering

over okay so we veered over to the left

and now we're going to Veer back to the

right to try to correct to the center

line now all of a sudden because we have

winds at 21 gusting uh no sorry winds

were at 25 gusting 35 over there so

you've got some good winds okay winds 25

gusting 35 means a gust could put you

over your maximum uh capability limit

for this plane we want to verify this

again we we we we know some of the

limitations that the plane has 27 to 35

Max depending on sort of which which

model you have those details will come

out and get configured what we know is

that the winds were at least 21 and they

were gusting 5 to 10 more beyond that uh

potentially even more than that and

sometimes the weather information uh is

in minute to minute perfect on what the

gusts are uh and so now you're

correcting and at the same time you're

correcting into another angle so you

know you look at the plane at a

different angle let's say you know let's

say This Is Us correcting right uh and

then we get hit with a crosswind at the

same time that we're making our

correction in those slippery runway

conditions we don't actually have to be

that far veered off the center line to

really get a and then a roll over where

basically you just get a a crosswind

picking this plane up over here and

flipping you over and that's where you

get obviously the wing breaking off see

in my opinion if this plane when we

think of flip over we think maybe it got

picked up from the back which happens

with smaller planes uh you'll see the

plane picked up in the back flip

straight over in that case I actually

don't think you would have seen a wing

broken off so I personally again my

speculation do not think a wing would

have broken off on a flip straight over

uh unless of course after that it tipped

over but then the wing would have been

right next to it this looks instead like

it was going straight you had some kind

of slip or whatever and then you got

rolled over that's my take it's my

speculation now let's get back to the

facts you get 80 people on board you're

going to have a crew it is a miracle an

absolute miracle that this thing did not

blow

up now they probably had uh minimums in

terms of fuel right so you're not going

to have full fuel tanks like this puppy

because you're at the end of your uh

approach so you'd have maybe about 50

minutes to an hour hour fuel left uh so

you still got a good amount of fuel on

there I mean you're still going to have

in excess of you know call it an hour of

fuel burn for a plane like that it's

going to be 250 at least gallons they

have like 250 gallons on there but I

mean that beats having you know 2,000

gallons right uh for a 10-hour flight

you've got you've got just enough for a

1 hour flight left so that could have

been a blessing here that this happened

on Landing now something else to

remember is that the vast majority of

plane accidents occur on Landing people

always say take off and land no take off

and land combined add up to over 50% of

accidents but the landing

specifically is um uh makes up somewhere

around

45% uh off to triple check that fact uh

maybe I can throw that up on screen here

uh but it's it's right around 45% maybe

even up to 53% somewhere in that range

from

Landings so uh Landings are that

definitely the riskier part as we've

seen now with the PTO make uh but then

again you know you have that takeoff uh

potential disorientation crash uh in

Philadelphia so crazy crazy time for

Aviation but here's what's going on uh

let's hope that person in critical

condition and the other seven people

injured make a full recovery as soon as

possible thoughts and prayers nobody

died this is a blessing that that plane

did not blow up thank you so much for

watching and wow