A Delta Air Lines plane lies upside down at Toronto Pearson Airport on Feb. 18, 2025. The Canadian Press/Chris Young
As his plane descended in Toronto, John Nelson looked out the window to get a view of the city and felt the aircraft was coming down at an abnormally high speed. Moments later, the plane hit the ground so hard that it broke the landing gear, slid, flipped and burst into flames on the runway at Pearson airport.
“It was like being in a washer,” Nelson said in an interview, describing how the plane flipped over in the fiery crash one year ago.
