| 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 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| 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) |
| Toronto-Malton Airport, ON (YYZ/CYYZ) |
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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