NEW DESIGN PREVENTED TRAGEDY: Here’s why all passengers survived the plane overturning in Toronto! (VIDEO)

Associate Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Michael McCormick, stated today that thanks to design and engineering, all 80 passengers and crew members survived the plane crash on a flight from Minneapolis to Toronto.

A Delta Airlines plane crashed on Monday while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport, tearing off a wing that caught fire, while the fuselage rolled upside down.

Delta plane crash in Toronto Canada new video shows what happened pretty clearly.

I’m happy there is video of it, which is rare for plane crashes.

Very happy people survived this. 🙏❤️🤗 pic.twitter.com/mx5n78eKQQ
— Moni 💕 (@MoniFunGirl) February 18, 2025

“It was absolutely phenomenal to see people walking out of an upside-down aircraft. But my second thought was—well, that’s design. That’s engineering. That’s years of civil aviation research… that made something like this possible,” McCormick told CNN.

He explained that the crash was not fatal for those on board because modern aircraft have fuel tanks located in the wings, whereas they were previously placed in the belly of the plane, underneath the passengers—a practice abandoned after multiple past accidents.

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Aerospace engineer Joe Jacobson, who previously worked for the Federal Aviation Administration, said that a major disaster was avoided in this case because the wing, which contained the fuel tanks, detached—preventing the fire inside from spreading to the passenger cabins.

He noted that the wing may have broken off due to a maintenance or design flaw, and that the investigation will examine these possibilities.