sunil wrote:

Wonder if they had radioed declearing an emergency and was
directed going west.

Nope. All arriving airliners up to the moment of the accident were landing
on 24L at Toronto. If the site ever comes back up, you can hear the
archive of the actual ATC communications containing the Air France flight
from www.liveatc.net.

Go to the archive link there, then choose Toronto and then the 15:30
archive from today. Skip forward to about the 26th minute (the archives
are 30 minutes long) and you will hear the Air France being vectored and
cleared for the ILS approach, behind and in front many other arriving
aircraft.



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Peter