An Endeavor Air MHI RJ CRJ-900LR was descending at 1,100 fpm, with sink rate warnings from its enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS) when it touched down in Toronto on Feb. 17, overturned, and slid to a stop while inverted and in flames, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) says.
Twenty-one of the 80 people on board were injured, two of them seriously.
In a preliminary report, issued Thursday, the TSB said that the instrument flight rules flight, carrying 76 passengers and four crewmembers from Minneapolis to Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International Airport was uneventful, and the flight crew was cleared for an instrument landing system approach to Runway 23. The landing reference speed was 139 kt; because of gusty winds, the crew increased airspeed to 149 kt, the maximum specified in the Endeavor Air flight manual for gusty conditions.
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