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Smashed jet engine, from the Air Canada DC-8 airliner that plunged to each Sunday north of Toronto International Airport, is hoisted by a crane yester(...)
Smashed jet engine, from the Air Canada DC-8 airliner that plunged to each Sunday north of Toronto International Airport, is hoisted by a crane yester(...)

Smashed jet engine, from the Air Canada DC-8 airliner that plunged to each Sunday north of Toronto International Airport, is hoisted by a crane yester(...)

Date7/6/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: Smashed jet engine, from the Air Canada DC-8 airliner that plunged to each Sunday north of Toronto International Airport, is hoisted by a crane yesterday and moved away from the crash site to facilitate the search for bodies. The engine was so badly damaged it started to break apart as it was lifted. Many of the bodies of the 108 dead are so badly mutilated that they may never be idenfitied.
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
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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_0003240F
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(...)
6/22/1973
Stained with blood and partially burned, mail recovered from the DC-8 jetliner that crashed north to Toronto International Airport on Sunday is sorted(...)
Stained with blood and partially burned, mail recovered from the DC-8 jetliner that crashed north to Toronto International Airport on Sunday is sorted(...)
7/8/1970
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
Here's how Cuban Hitched 5,000-Mile Jet Ride to Freedom Technicians huddles in Air Canada DC-8 to show how Cuban stowed away in Spainsh jet's undercarriage
Here's how Cuban Hitched 5,000-Mile Jet Ride to Freedom Technicians huddles in Air Canada DC-8 to show how Cuban stowed away in Spainsh jet's undercarriage
6/4/1969
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 (...)
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
Jet engine of a L-1011 is framed between giant fanjets of a 747 jumbo jet in the repair hangar at Toronto International Airport. It's open 24 hours a (...)
Jet engine of a L-1011 is framed between giant fanjets of a 747 jumbo jet in the repair hangar at Toronto International Airport. It's open 24 hours a (...)
2/18/1977
Air Canada flight attendant Richard Begin returns on crutches to the scene of the DC-9 crash at Toronto International Airport to alleviate some of my (...)
Air Canada flight attendant Richard Begin returns on crutches to the scene of the DC-9 crash at Toronto International Airport to alleviate some of my (...)
6/27/1978
Two people died and 105 were injured when Air Canada DC-9 skidded into ravine and broke up at Toronto International Airport
Two people died and 105 were injured when Air Canada DC-9 skidded into ravine and broke up at Toronto International Airport
6/26/1978
Hovering over death scene of 108 victims of crash of Air Canada s DC-8 jetliner last Sunday, Canadian Armed Forces helicopter moves in to start airlif(...)
Hovering over death scene of 108 victims of crash of Air Canada s DC-8 jetliner last Sunday, Canadian Armed Forces helicopter moves in to start airlif(...)
7/5/1970
Leading edge of a 25-yard-long wing for a giant DC-10 airliner-wings are a specially at Malton's Douglas Aircraft of Canada- is examined by the firm's treasurer, Chuck Gollihar, left, and president Dick Richmond, Douglas Canada makes major parts of airpla
Leading edge of a 25-yard-long wing for a giant DC-10 airliner-wings are a specially at Malton's Douglas Aircraft of Canada- is examined by the firm's treasurer, Chuck Gollihar, left, and president Dick Richmond, Douglas Canada makes major parts of airpla
5/23/1973
Mississauga student Donald Marshall, 19, left paralyzed by a West German highway crash, is lifted from his mini-hospital, an airliner that arrived at Toronto International Airport yesterday with nine seats removed to accommodate his stretcher
Mississauga student Donald Marshall, 19, left paralyzed by a West German highway crash, is lifted from his mini-hospital, an airliner that arrived at Toronto International Airport yesterday with nine seats removed to accommodate his stretcher
11/8/1973
First passenger off first plane to land at Toronto International Airport since last Saturday night was Johanna Hopwood, who came in on Air Canada jet (...)
First passenger off first plane to land at Toronto International Airport since last Saturday night was Johanna Hopwood, who came in on Air Canada jet (...)
8/10/1977