Canada’s TSB preliminary report says that when the plane’s ground proximity warning system sounded 2.6 seconds before touchdown, it indicated a “high rate of descent” with the airspeed at ...

The report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, an independent agency, found that a warning about the plane’s rapid descent had sounded just before it touched down, and the plane was ...

TORONTO (AP) — The alert system on a Delta Air Lines jet that flipped upside down and burst into flames as it tried to land in Toronto last month indicated a high rate of descent less than three ...

indicating a high rate of descent. While the shock struts on the plane’s landing gear are designed to absorb runway contact of no greater than 12 feet per second, the airplane touched down at 18 ...