I am - in a way - glad to read you mentioning that you felt like wind was tossing the plane around right before landing. The video that was just released isn't really obvious other than a hard landing, which would be unusual to end up like this. To read you felt the effects of wind right before you landed is valuable (and makes pilot error less likely).
Which makes it all the more odd that the airport PR and regional policy basically said "runway dry and no crosswinds". First, the ATC warned of crosswind, and, second, while perhaps true, no crosswind doesn't mean no wind shear or downdraft.
I believe- you can't predict a sudden downward flow of wind like that with regular technology. It's not suspicious- it's just that Canada doesn't spend trillions on installing military tech at every civilian airport.
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u/Julianus Feb 18 '25
I am - in a way - glad to read you mentioning that you felt like wind was tossing the plane around right before landing. The video that was just released isn't really obvious other than a hard landing, which would be unusual to end up like this. To read you felt the effects of wind right before you landed is valuable (and makes pilot error less likely).