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Originally Posted by Gresto
Y We've had only one major plane crash, Flight 621 in 1970
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That happened a year before my family moved to Toronto. I remember a neighbor talking about it. Just a month or so before we moved back to Houston in 1973, another Air Canada DC-8 exploded and burned at the gate while being refueled at (what I think we called at the time) Malton Airport. Now called Pearson. Anyway, they dumped the remains of the destroyed DC-8 next to a taxiway and I remember taxiing past it just before taking off on our flight back to the states.
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/V...WO/query/While
As a side note, according to cockpit voice recordings, on approach to Toronto, the crew of the ill-fated Air Canada jet discussed, among other things, how expensive housing in Toronto had gotten. 50 years ago!