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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.
2012 Agni Air Dornier 228 crash – On 14 May 2012, an Agni Air operated Dornier 228 crashed into rocky terrain after a failed go-around. 15 out of 21 passengers and crews were killed, including Indian child actress Taruni Sachdev. Sita Air Flight 601 – On 28 September 2012, a Sita Air Dornier 228 suffered an engine failure in mid-air. The ...
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.
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 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]
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MK Airlines Flight 1602 was an MK Airlines Boeing 747-200F cargo flight on a flight from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Nova Scotia, Canada, to Zaragoza Airport, Spain. It crashed on take-off in 2004, killing the crew of 7. It was the fourth accident for MK Airlines, as well as the deadliest. [1]
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.