Preliminary report from Canadas Transportation Safety Board reveals new details about crash at Toronto Pearson Airport [Video]

A landing gear support broke as a Delta Air Lines regional jet was landing before it flipped upside down, leaving passengers “hanging like bats” at Toronto Pearson International in February, according to a preliminary report from Canada’s Transportation Safety Board.

On February 17, the CRJ-900 — operated by Endeavor Airlines as Delta Connection Flight 4819 from Minneapolis, Minnesota in the US to Toronto, Ontario in Canada — landed in a fiery crash that ripped off a wing and rolled the plane upside down.

All 80 passengers and crew made it out alive, though 21 people were injured.

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Of those 21 people, two were seriously injured.

On touchdown, investigators determined the side-stay attached to the aircraft’s right main landing gear fractured, the gear retracted, and the right wing broke between the landing gear and fuselage, which is the central part of the plane.

When the wing detached, …