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Air Canada Flight 621 was an Air Canada Douglas DC-8, registered as CF-TIW, that crashed on July 5, 1970, while attempting to land at Toronto International Airport. It was flying on a Montreal–Toronto–Los Angeles route. [2] It crashed in Toronto Gore Township, now part of Brampton. [3]
Air Canada Flight 646; Air Canada Flight 759; Air Canada Flight 797; Air Canada masked stowaway case; G. Gimli Glider This page was last edited on 17 February 2021 ...
Air Canada Flight 624 [1] [2] [3] was a scheduled Canadian domestic passenger flight from Toronto Pearson International Airport to Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During heavy snow and poor visibility, at 00:43 ADT (03:43 UTC ) on 29 March 2015, the Airbus A320-211 landed short of the runway and was severely ...
C-GAUN seen here on February 17, 1985 C-GAUN from another angle. Air Canada Flight 143, commonly known as the Gimli Glider, was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on Saturday, July 23, 1983, [1] at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,500 m), midway through the flight.
At 11:46 p.m. local time, Air Canada Flight 759, carrying 135 passengers and 5 crew members, [4] was cleared to land on Runway 28R. The adjacent Runway 28L had been closed at 10 p.m. local time and its lights were off, [ 6 ] except for a 20.5-foot-wide (6.2 m) lighted flashing "X" at the eastern runway threshold. [ 7 ]
The flight's captain, Donald Cameron (age 51), had been employed by Air Canada since March 1966, and had qualified as a DC-9 captain in November 1974. At the time of the accident, Cameron had approximately 13,000 flight hours, of which 4,939 were in the DC-9. First Officer Claude Ouimet (age 34) had flown for Air Canada since November 1973.
Air Canada Flight 646 was a flight from Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport to Fredericton, New Brunswick, operated by Air Canada. On December 16, 1997, at 23:48 local time , the Canadair CRJ100ER (CL-65) jet crashed after a failed go-around attempt in Fredericton. [ 1 ]
An Air Canada Express flight with 73 passengers aboard had to be evacuated on the runway upon landing at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Nova Scotia after experiencing a suspected ...