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Fire trucks, ambulances, police cars and other emergency vehicles litter the Etobicoke Creek valley where the stricken plane came to rest. Cause of th(...)
Fire trucks, ambulances, police cars and other emergency vehicles litter the Etobicoke Creek valley where the stricken plane came to rest. Cause of th(...)

Fire trucks, ambulances, police cars and other emergency vehicles litter the Etobicoke Creek valley where the stricken plane came to rest. Cause of th(...)

Date6/26/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: Fire trucks; ambulances; police cars and other emergency vehicles litter the Etobicoke Creek valley where the stricken plane came to rest. Cause of the crash has not been determined; an Air Canada official said.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000186F
Aerial view shows rescue trucks surrounding the smashed plane in Beechwood Cemetery
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Emergency spotlights outline the scene as Coroner Gerald Blanchet looks over the wreckage of a twin-engine private plane that crashed in Etobicoke's C(...)
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Grounded. A Cessna 411 from which 7 walked away unhurt following an emergency landing early yesterday is towed back to Buttonville Airport. The plane,(...)
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