Your planes tonight

[Ashy]

Thank God everyone got out alive when a medium sized airliner finished up upside down in Toronto in cold conditions. After what may have been a hard landing and failure of the right main gear, somehow the right wing was torn off and the other one, still providing lift, turned the machine on its back. Assuming that the wing struck the runway, they were lucky that it gave way without cartwheeling the whole aeroplane.

In another unrelated incident, two light aeroplanes collided in mid-air, in uncontrolled airspace, over Marana, Arizona, killing both pilots. No passengers involved*. There were two survivors.

EDIT *- Two people were aboard each aeroplane, two were killed including one pilot.

[klondike]

In another unrelated incident, two light aeroplanes collided in mid-air, in uncontrolled airspace, over Marana, Arizona, killing both pilots. No passengers involved. There were two survivors.

Those numbers don't stack up - 2 light aircraft, 2 dead pilots and two survivors but no passengers or were they both training flights with two pilots aboard?

[Alex]

Two people were on each plane.  Read there was no tower or anything and pilots used a common frequency to talk to each other.  It's likely to have been pilot error.

[dextrous63]

Have just read the Mail and Inde's accounts of this and they don't state that both pilots were killed.  One plane landed intact, and the other crashed, which I guess is where the two deaths emerged.

[klondike]

Maybe one was a training flight? Or maybe just an early inaccurate report.

[Ashy]

Probably my error. There were two people on board each aeroplane and two people were killed in the crash which is most likely a pilot's error. What I meant to imply was that these being light aircraft were not passenger flights in the usual sense. 

[klondike]

[dextrous63]

Probably my error. There were two people on board each aeroplane and two people were killed in the crash which is most likely a pilot's error. What I meant to imply was that these being light aircraft were not passenger flights in the usual sense.

Or maybe early reports suggested what you stated.🤷🏻�♂️