Captaingomes From Canada, joined Feb 2001, 6413 posts, RR: 58 Reply 1, posted (10 years 6 months 5 hours ago) and read 847 times:
Marrrty, I'm not sure, but I came across an article recently, and I forget the publication, that some guy recently found some stuff from the accident at the exact location of the site of the crash, including bones, and something else. If I come across the article, I'll let you know. Maybe somebody else saw it?
"it's kind of like an Airbus, it's an engineering marvel, but there's no sense of passion" -- J. Clarkson re: Coxster
Mcdougald From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (10 years 6 months 4 hours ago) and read 824 times:
The crash site was a farm belonging at that time to the Bergsma family. YYZ717 wrote once that it's still an open field, but that suburbia is encroaching on it.
Mcdougald From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (10 years 6 months 1 hour ago) and read 784 times:
There was an article published on Canoe in November 2001. It says the site is now overgrown and that there's not much sign left of what happened there.
Captaingomes From Canada, joined Feb 2001, 6413 posts, RR: 58 Reply 5, posted (10 years 6 months ago) and read 767 times:
McDougald, Air Canada unfortunately did have another fatal accident after that with a DC-9 in Toronto, which overran the runway (at the time, 24L/6R). It ended up in the ditch where Britannia Rd. now goes through. I'm not sure on the date of the Cincinnati DC-9 accident, but was around that time too I believe. (Too lazy too look these up).
"it's kind of like an Airbus, it's an engineering marvel, but there's no sense of passion" -- J. Clarkson re: Coxster
Yyz717 From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 15990 posts, RR: 59 Reply 13, posted (10 years 5 months 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 642 times:
There is also a memorial of the crash in the Mt Pleasant Cemetery in downtown Toronto. It lists basic info about the flight along with the names of all crew & pax.
I run by it all the time.
Panam, TWA, Ansett, Eastern.......AC next? Might be good for Canada.
Delta-flyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2676 posts, RR: 7 Reply 16, posted (10 years 5 months 4 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 631 times:
I remember this crash very well. I hope I do not bore you with the following story, but here it goes anyway......
I was a college student at the time, living with my parents in Montreal, but was working in BC that summer. On the Thursday evening prior to the crash, a friend of my parents, Steve Simon, was at their house having a farewell dinner, as he was emigrating to the USA - leaving Sunday morning at 7 am, bound for Los Angeles, on Air Canada.
On that fateful Sunday morning, may parents awoke to the news that a DC-8 had crashed in Toronto, and a quick check revealed that it was indeed the 7 am flight from Montreal to LAX, with a scheduled stop at YYZ. My dad called Air Canada to see if Steve was actually on the plane, but they would not say until the next of kin is notified. They took my parents' phone number and promised to call back later.
They did indeed call back a few hours later, asking if my parents knew his next of kin. They gave them his brother's phone number in LA. Apparently, AC tried to call him, but as he had not heard of the accident, he was already on his way to the airport to pick Steve up. At LAX, the arrivals board did not have the flight listed, so his brother inquired at the counter -- they asked who he was looking for, and is he the next of kin, then they told him the bad news. Shortly after, AC called my parents in Montreal with the same news.
By the way, this was not the last AC fatal accident. A fire in a DC-9 comes to mind in the early 80's.
Yyz717 From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 15990 posts, RR: 59 Reply 17, posted (10 years 5 months 4 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 622 times:
The DC-9 fire was in August 83, on a flight from DFW-YYZ (that PRESTIGIOUS AC route). The DC-9 landed quickly in CVG but 23 of 46 people on board died.
Panam, TWA, Ansett, Eastern.......AC next? Might be good for Canada.
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