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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.
The flight took off at about 9:24 p.m. on 20 February 2005. When the aircraft, a four-engine Boeing 747-436, was around 300 feet (91 m) into the air, flames burst out of its number 2 engine, a result of engine surge. The pilots shut the engine down. Air traffic control expected the plane to return to the airport and deleted its flight plan.
Pages in category "Air Canada accidents and incidents" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Kalitta Air Flight 207; KLM Flight 861; KLM Flight 867; Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509; Korean Air Flight 085; Korean Air Flight 801; Korean Air Flight 8702; Korean Air Lines Flight 007; Korean Air Lines Flight 015; Kuwait Airways Flight 422
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.
Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) or Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel) in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and ...
A photo shows the inside of an Air Canada jet during a flight from Vancouver to Singapore after it encountered turbulence on Oct. 11, 2023, sending passengers' food and drinks flying around the cabin.
Accident Investigations, DCA17IA148. National Transportation Safety Board. August 2, 2017. NTSB (May 2, 2018). San Francisco International Airport Terminal 2 security camera video of the July 7, 2017, Air Canada taxiway overflight – via YouTube. Simon Hradecky (October 12, 2018).