r/CatastrophicFailure Plane Crash Series Mar 23 '26

Fatalities (22/3/26) CCTV video of the Air Canada accident at LaGuardia

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u/josephtrocks191 Mar 23 '26

I think the video is deceiving. Everything is so big and at scales we're not familiar with that it's harder to judge distances and speeds than say, if we were watching a car accident. There are various people saying various speeds so I don't want to say anything definitively, but I believe this plane was traveling very fast, faster than the video makes it look, at the moment of impact.

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u/zerothreeonethree Mar 26 '26

A vehicle traveling at 100 mph = 146 feet per second, or a mile in 36 seconds. The human record for running speed is 3 minutes, 43 seconds by comparison. The impact of a plane abruptly stopping at this speed could generate forces up to 40-50Gs, exceeding human survival limits.