Pulse24 - Toronto's News: “An Air France A-340 passenger plane burst into flames after apparently skidding off a runway while trying to land in bad weather at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

The craft came to a rest at the edge of Etobicoke Creek, and smoke and flames billowed from the mid-section of the fuselage and near the tail.”

Tom informs me that CNN is reporting that there are more firefighters on the scene than there are passengers and that there are few, if any, casualties.

Crazy. I hope everyone is okay.

The weather was pretty nuts here today. 26 degrees and sunny when I left the house this morning and totally stormy ever since.

I used to live within blocks of the airport. We used to sit out on the balcony on a warm summers eve and watch the planes approach. Depending on their trajectory, we would watch the planes landing lights “hover” as they approached us head-on. Strangely, we had less airplane noise at the old place than we do at the new one (which is about 20km from the airport).

I’ll post some more links if I come across anything interesting.