50 years ago I lost my Uncle Vern Janzen in an airplane crash. He was a handsome fellow. It left my mothers sister Susie a young widow; no children. I had just turned 6 years old but I remember. It took quite a toll on the older members of my extended family. We have not forgotten them. Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 was a flight from Montreal to Toronto on November 29, 1963. The aircraft was a four-engine Douglas DC-8. About five minutes after takeoff in poor weather, the jet crashed about 20 miles north of Montreal, near Ste-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec, killing all 118 people on board: 111 passengers and 7 crew members. The crash was the deadliest in Canadian history at that time, and is still the third-deadliest behind Swissair Flight 111 and Arrow Air Flight 1285. It was also the worst crash of DC-8 at the time, and is currently the sixth worst.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 04:14:54 +0000
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