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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 18:51:19 JST 翠星石

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   • Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
   @lightweight >I can't quite imagine how it could've flipped over like that without catastrophic destruction >that there're only a few injuries, only a couple serious, is hard to believe.
   It's quite easy to believe - the plane was coming down at landing speed and the fuselage performed as designed, holding together as the plane gradually came to a stop over the icy runway.
   
   The reason why there were only injuries was because everyone was wearing their seatbelt - there have been a few cases of planes coming down so hard on the runway that the landing gear collapsed and holes ripped out of the fuselage, with only those who weren't wearing their seatbelt dying.
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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 18:51:20 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

     Looking at that Delta flight from Minneapolis that landed upside down in Toronto, I can't quite imagine how it could've flipped over like that without catastrophic destruction... that there're only a few injuries, only a couple serious, is hard to believe. But thank goodness it wasn't more devastating.