ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333930
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Date: | Saturday 3 October 1959 |
Time: | |
Type: | Vickers 757 Viscount |
Owner/operator: | Trans-Canada Air Lines - TCAL |
Registration: | CF-TGY |
MSN: | 143 |
Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 38 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 1 km E of Toronto-Malton Airport, ON (YYZ) -
Canada
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Winnipeg-Stevenson Aerodrome, MB (YWG/CYWG) |
Destination airport: | Toronto-Malton Airport, ON (YYZ/CYYZ) |
Narrative:The crew of the Vickers Viscount were carrying out an ILS backbeam approach at night to runway 23 at Toronto-Malton Airport. Visibility was poor due to heavy rain. The aircraft descended below MDA and struck the ground more than 3400 feet short of the runway threshold.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Misjudged distance."
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