This is the plane crash at Pearson in Toronto 3 days ago. Incredible that there were only one or two serious injuries and all but one person has been released from hospital. All the more incredible when you watch the very clear video of the plane landing and seeing the wing shearing off and fire starting.
Just got to wonder what happened that they did not flare. I sent the video to my old roommate from my freightdog days asking him if he saw the same thing that I see. The first thing he said is they didn’t flare. Drove the main gear right up into the airframe.
I showed this to one of my friends, who said the plane hit the ground hard. He also said the plane wants a belly rub.
Belly rub! 
Like my beagle!
It’s hard to tell from the video what happened first. It does appear that the right side main gear collapsed. However, just as they are touching down the left wing lifts up. There were supposedly some significant crosswinds. So, it’s also possible the lifting left wing cause the right wing to contact the ground and the right gear to collapse.
I found out that there was a 40mph wind gust hit one of the sides of the CRJ-900. I believe that is what caused the rollover/crash.
The cause of the rollover will most likely be that when the R. gear collapsed and the R. wing separated, the lift from the L wing caused the uncontrollable roll. They landed runway 23 and the reported weather was wind from the west, so it was a quartering right crosswind. That was against the direction of the roll.
METAR: Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ/CYYZ) METAR | Flightradar24
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That was a hard landing. Is a miracle that everyone survived with only minor injuries
I figure the pilot/s had an issue with their altitude/depth perception due to snow cover (no flare), added with the adverse wind, hitting hard enough to collapse the gear, etc. etc. This will end up on Air Crash Investigation for sure, being Canada and all. I hope they all bought lots of Lottery tickets.
Absolutely a miracle. Curious looking at the shearing effect on the wing…
Hard to see how far under the fuselage it extended. I assume the main spar’s roughly in line with the closed exit door, so if the undercarriage punched up through the wing it was just aft of the spar…? Or maybe it punched directly up to the main spar.