Two seconds before crash, jet spins toward breakwater

IIIF

Two seconds before crash, jet spins toward breakwater

Date9/3/1968

Names

James, Norman (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

FormatPicture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Two seconds before crash; jet spins toward breakwater. Pilot was performing snap rolls when wingtip hit lake; plane cracked up.

Subject

Aircraft accidents

Medium

Photographs

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)

Object NumberTSPA_0000135F

Discover More

Thirty seconds after the crash, the airport looks as if it had been bombed

9/2/1966

Air disaster: The pilot of this Snowbird jet ejected moments before it crashed in Lake Ontario Sunday

9/5/1989

Crash Scene: A pilot calmly reported loss of power before he died when his Piper Twin Comanche fell out of the sky' at Toronto Island Airport

13 January 1992

An investigator examines the wreckage of a two-engined Piper Twin Comanche today, seeking the cause of the crash at Toronto Island Airport

13 January 1992

Plane skids off runway. A cargo jet loaded with seafood skidded off a runway during heavy rain at Pearson airport yesterday

10/31/1989

Seats from, RAF Nimrod jet

10/11/1995

Remains of RAF Nimrod jet

10/11/1995

An air Canada DC-8 burns at Toronto International Airport last night after an explosion ignited jet fuel and turned it into a roaring fireball. Witnes(...)

6/22/1973

Reassembled wreckage of the crashed jet is spread out in a government hanger at Toronto International Airport in an attempt to find out why part of th(...)

7/15/1970

First man to ditch a jet plane, Flt

7/26/1946

Antarctic crash site

6/26/1978

Wreckage of television transmission tower (on ground) and FM transmission tower (on roof) strews crash scene after a twin-engined airplane struck the (...)

9/8/1977