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Crash wreckage
Crash wreckage

Crash wreckage

Date6/29/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: Crash wreckage: Two years ago today; this Air Canada DC-9 crashed into a ravine at the end of a runway at Toronto International Airport on takeoff; killing two people and injuring more than 100 others. The reverberations are still being felt.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000187F
Wreckage of television transmission tower (on ground) and FM transmission tower (on roof) strews crash scene after a twin-engined airplane struck the (...)
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
Wreckage of television transmission tower (on ground) and FM transmission tower (on roof) strews crash scene after a twin-engined airplane struck the (...)
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
View of wreckage through one of the 10 windows of the Burgsma home blown out by the crash of the jetliner
View of wreckage through one of the 10 windows of the Burgsma home blown out by the crash of the jetliner
7/5/1970
One of the biggest pieces of wreckage landed nearly half-mile from retaining wall
One of the biggest pieces of wreckage landed nearly half-mile from retaining wall
9/2/1966
Mangled wreckage of vintage World War II Fairey Firefly in which Alan Ness crashed to death is raised in three pieces from Lake Ontario by barge-mount(...)
Mangled wreckage of vintage World War II Fairey Firefly in which Alan Ness crashed to death is raised in three pieces from Lake Ontario by barge-mount(...)
9/2/1977
Charred wreckage is all that remains of an Air Canada DC-8 that exploded and burned at Toronto International Airport last night only six minute before(...)
Charred wreckage is all that remains of an Air Canada DC-8 that exploded and burned at Toronto International Airport last night only six minute before(...)
6/21/1973
Aircraft Remains: Investigator Rick Pilson probes the wreckage yesterday morning after a Cessna crashed near Inglewood Monday night, killing the pilot
Aircraft Remains: Investigator Rick Pilson probes the wreckage yesterday morning after a Cessna crashed near Inglewood Monday night, killing the pilot
4/20/1993
Crumpled wreckage of twin-engined Piper Apache, in which four men died early today, lies tilted over fence in backyard on Cattrick St., in Malton, qua(...)
Crumpled wreckage of twin-engined Piper Apache, in which four men died early today, lies tilted over fence in backyard on Cattrick St., in Malton, qua(...)
4/23/1968
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(...)
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(...)
11/25/1968
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(...)
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
stigators piece together the wreckage of DC-8 whcih crashed outside Malton in 1970 killing all 109 aboard
stigators piece together the wreckage of DC-8 whcih crashed outside Malton in 1970 killing all 109 aboard
7/15/1970
Wreckage studied
Wreckage studied
1/14/1983