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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(...)
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(...)

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(...)

Date6/22/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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. Witnesses say the explosion was in one of two trucks parked under the wings. I saw the gasoline truck in flames and it was only minutes before you could hardly see the aircraft because of smoke; one man reported. I think I saw flames jumping from the trucks to the aircraft; he added. The first blast; at 7.02 p.m. sent a chunk of the wing section flying half a mile; then the whole wing dropped on the fuel truck.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000168F
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
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Piece by piece, the wrecked body of the Air Canada DC-9 that crashed at Toronto International Airport on Monday is being taken from its resting place (...)
6/30/1978
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Flames destroyed the passenger section of an Air Canada DC-8 on the tarmac, then reached the tail
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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(...)
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stigators piece together the wreckage of DC-8 whcih crashed outside Malton in 1970 killing all 109 aboard
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This scene of a simulated air disaster at Toronto International Airport with 250 victims looked so real that passengers flying overhead had to be assu(...)
9/16/1976
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