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Touch-and-Go Tragedy: The crash of Air Canada flight 621 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Medium

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A DC-8 lands hard, takes off, and comes down harder the second time, after an unapproved procedure meets poor control system design.

Touch-and-Go Tragedy: The crash of Air Canada flight 621 Admiral Cloudberg 28 min read · May 7, 2023 -- 14 Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size The pulverized remains of Air Canada flight 621 litter a farmer’s field outside Brampton, Ontario. (Brampton Guardian) On the 5th of July 1970, an Air Canada DC-8 plunged burning from the sky over Brampton, Ontario, leaving behind little more than a smoking crater in a field. The crash claimed the lives of 109 people, a toll which remains the worst in Air Canada’s history, even after more than 50 years. The sequence of events wh

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