309 People Safe After Plane Crash in Toronto

This morning, many people are thankful that all 309 passengers and crew memebers are safe after their Air France jet skidded off the runway at Pearon International Airport in Toronto. It's unclear what caused the problem, but the jet had circled the airport many times due to poor weather. Media outlets are taking the opportunity to alarm viewers/air travelers into paying more attention to the flight safety videos (Gothamist thinks the Today show clocked a good 15 minutes in the first hour on this story). Gothamist will pay more attention, as long as the folks at JFK Airport do more to make sure near-collisions (let alone collisions) don't happen anymore.

Airlines must now make sure they can get all passengers out in 90 seconds, before a damaged plane gets too toxic. Gothamist wonders if there's a similar operating standard for mass transit systems, such as subways, but we supposed it's difficult due to length of tunnels.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 3, 2005 7:15 AM

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dude

I propose that we sue God. Like Kojak said, someone's to blame, so sue God!

While we're at it, sue God because someone stole Doug's computer, and he doesn't thin khe should be responsible for the payments, even if he doesn't have insurance... it's probably God's fault he didn't buy it!

Kojak

Yeah it’s a shame no one was killed. Like what’s the point if a plane crashes and everyone survives? What’s up with that?!

But if I was on that flight, I wouldn’t be pissed off, but overjoyed I made it out alive. Sucks to loose my luggage but who cares?

This is obvious God's fault for the bad weather. Well we have to blame somebody dont we???

J

This is, like, the Happy News story of the year.

I was really hoping Channel 4'd let Len Berman handle this one, just so's he could scream, "And no one got hurt!"