Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831
- Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831
Infobox Airliner accident|name=Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831
Date=1963-11-29
Type= Not knownFatalities=118
Injuries= 0
Aircraft Type=Douglas DC-8
Operator=Trans-Canada Airlines
Tail Number=CF-TJN
Passengers=111
Crew=7
Survivors =0
Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831 was a flight from Montreal/Dorval Airport (now Montréal/Trudeau) to Toronto International Airport (now Toronto/Pearson) on November 29 1963. The aircraft was a Douglas Commercial DC-8-54CF, registered CF-TJN. Several minutes after takeoff in poor weather, the plane crashed near Ste-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec, Canada, killing all 118 people on board: 111 passengers and 7 crew members. [ [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/sos/002028-3100-e.html?PHPSESSID=gjc8q31s0iq0rurk1v815uqg66 SOS! Canadian Disasters] , a virtual museum exhibition at Library and Archives Canada]
The crash created a large crater, and the plane was too badly damaged to determine a definite cause. The official report released in 1965 pointed to problems in the jet's pitch-trim system (the system used to regulate longitudinal positions) as a possibility, since a pitch trim problem caused a similar crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 304, another DC-8, a few months afterwards in 1964.
Trans-Canada Airlines (predecessor to Air Canada) created a memorial garden near the site of the crash.
Footnotes
References
* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/sos/ SOS! Canadian Disasters] , a virtual museum exhibition at Library and Archives Canada
External links
* [http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0069896/L/ Photo of CF-TJN at airliners.net] , taken a few months before the crash.
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