TSB investigating after plane's wheel goes off runway at Toronto airport

The Canadian Press - Monday, January 22, 2018 TORONTO

The Transportation Safety Board is investigating after a wheel of a plane went off a runway at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Sunday evening.

A spokeswoman for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority says the Air Georgian flight became temporarily disabled on the taxiway after an aborted takeoff.

More to come once the investigation is complete

Is this another example of "Self Regulation" not working ?

Why flying isn’t as safe as we’re told

ASHLEY NUNES, CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL. Ashley Nunes studies transportation safety and regulatory policy at MIT's Center for Transportation & Logistics.

Limiting our perception of safety to fatal crashes alone narrows our appraisal of risk. As security expert Frederic Lemieux notes, aviation from this perspective appears to be very safe. The reality, however, is very different. Human errors that can jeopardize air safety continue to occur throughout the industry. For example, a recent survey found that more than 95 per cent of pilots admit to landing their airplane when conditions dictate they shouldn't. The survey – completed by 2,340 pilots worldwide – paints a worrying picture about the current and future state of air safety. Violating the rules has clearly become ingrained in airline culture because crashes are rare. At the same time, new recruits are watching their mentors flout those rules, emboldening them to eventually follow suit.

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Plane at Pearson crashes into a pole during a deicing period, the plane collided with a pole, damaging the right wing and forcing passengers to evacuate.

Rash of Pearson runway incidents worries safety board (Toronto Star)

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has launched a special review of operations at Pearson, worried that the frequency of incursions -- when an aircraft inadvertently taxies on to a runway -- could lead to disaster.

The controller then cleared a Westjet Boeing 737 bound for St. John’s to depart on that parallel runway. But worried that the Envoy flight, an Embraer 175 jet operated by a subsidiary of American Airlines, wasn’t stopping as instructed, the controller issued firm orders, according to a recording on the website LiveATC.net.

“Envoy 3765, stop, stop,” the controller said.

Tuesday’s incident was yet another close call at Pearson. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has launched a special review of operations at Pearson, worried that the frequency of incursions — when an aircraft inadvertently taxies into the runway environment — could lead to disaster.