Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831
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| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1963-11-29 |
| Type | Crash |
| Site | Ste-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec, Canada |
| Fatalities | 118 |
| Injuries | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Douglas DC-8 |
| Operator | Trans-Canada Airlines |
| Tail number | CF-TJN |
| Passengers | 111 |
| Crew | 7 |
| Survivors | N/A |
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-8-54F, 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.
The crash created a large crater, and the wreckage 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 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.
[edit] External links
- Article at Collections Canada
- Photo of CF-TJN at airliners.net, taken a few months before the crash.
