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The airline's Winnipeg maintenance shops and its first trial flight of the Viscount was documented in the 1955 film, Routine Flight. [13] The airline acquired a fleet of Douglas DC-8 jet airliners powered by Rolls-Royce Conways, the first being received on 25 May 1960. The DC-8 quickly replaced the slower Super Constellations on TCA's scheduled ...
Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) Flight 831 was a flight from Montréal–Dorval International Airport to Toronto International Airport on November 29, 1963. About five minutes after takeoff in poor weather, the jet crashed about 32 km (20 mi) north of Montreal, near Ste-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec, Canada, killing all 111 passengers and seven crew members.
At the time of the incident the aircraft had accumulated 25,476 hours of flight time. [2] The aircraft was registered CF-TLV and was the 289th DC-9 built at the Long Beach assembly plant. [citation needed] The 32 series was a stretched version of the DC-9 that was 15 feet (4.6 m) longer than the original series 10. [3]
The related term flight time is defined by ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) as "The total time from the moment an aeroplane first moves for the purpose of taking off until the moment it finally comes to rest at the end of the flight", and is referred to colloquially as "blocks to blocks" or "chocks to chocks" time. [1]
At the time of the incident the aircraft had accumulated only 453 hours of flight time. [7] The aircraft was registered CF-TIW [8] and was the 526th DC-8 built at the Long Beach assembly plant. [6] The 60 series was a stretched version of the DC-8 that was 36.7 feet (11.2 m) longer than the DC-8 series models 10 through 50. [9]
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During the mid-1980s, three airlines were competing with nonstop service operated with mainline jet aircraft between Thunder Bay and Toronto: [10] Air Canada with Boeing 727-200 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 aircraft, Nordair with Boeing 737-200 aircraft and Pacific Western Airlines with Boeing 737-200 aircraft.
North Atlantic Tracks for the westbound crossing of February 24, 2017, with the new reduced lateral separation minima (RLAT) Tracks shown in blue. The North Atlantic Tracks, officially titled the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS), are a structured set of transatlantic flight routes that stretch from eastern North America to western Europe across the Atlantic Ocean, within the ...