Paul Cardin (Never Was An Arrow II)
Brampton's LARGEST AIR DISASTER… Air Canada's Flight 621 and a DC-8 CUTAWAY
HERE IS THE FIRST DC-8 that was sold as a commercial airliner model by Douglas Aircraft Ltd. of Long Beach California.
This was the first of three rounds of DC-8s produced.
The first round of DC-8s was the 20, 30, 40, and 50 series. Air Canada bought 22 DC-8s which were either of the 40 or 50 series and represented almost 10 per cent of the total DC-8s produced in this segment.
THIS DC-8 CUTAWAY gives the reader an idea of the interior of an Air Canada DC-8 back in the 70s. (See LARGE: www.flickr.com/photos/78215847@N00/3759938889/sizes/o/ )
The DC-8-63 that crashed in Castlemore almost 40 years ago was actually a "stretched" version of this "8".
The final "stretched" version was known as a DC-8 63 Series and was also the third, and final round of DC-8s, to be manufactured.
Registered with Transport Canada as CF-TIW, Flight 621's Air Canada DC-8 was 37 feet longer, and had a wingspan six feet wider than the original DC-8s. It was also 12 tonnes heavier, and maxed out at 259 passengers. It carried Air Canada Fin Number 878, and was manufactured as number 46114.
THE NOTES contain locations of some items that I, or other members of "Friends of Flight 621" have found at the crash site of Air Canada Flight 621 and where these items would have been found on a DC-8.
UPDATE: Fixed LINKS above!
© Paul Cardin - Friends of Flight 621
Brampton's LARGEST AIR DISASTER… Air Canada's Flight 621 and a DC-8 CUTAWAY
HERE IS THE FIRST DC-8 that was sold as a commercial airliner model by Douglas Aircraft Ltd. of Long Beach California.
This was the first of three rounds of DC-8s produced.
The first round of DC-8s was the 20, 30, 40, and 50 series. Air Canada bought 22 DC-8s which were either of the 40 or 50 series and represented almost 10 per cent of the total DC-8s produced in this segment.
THIS DC-8 CUTAWAY gives the reader an idea of the interior of an Air Canada DC-8 back in the 70s. (See LARGE: www.flickr.com/photos/78215847@N00/3759938889/sizes/o/ )
The DC-8-63 that crashed in Castlemore almost 40 years ago was actually a "stretched" version of this "8".
The final "stretched" version was known as a DC-8 63 Series and was also the third, and final round of DC-8s, to be manufactured.
Registered with Transport Canada as CF-TIW, Flight 621's Air Canada DC-8 was 37 feet longer, and had a wingspan six feet wider than the original DC-8s. It was also 12 tonnes heavier, and maxed out at 259 passengers. It carried Air Canada Fin Number 878, and was manufactured as number 46114.
THE NOTES contain locations of some items that I, or other members of "Friends of Flight 621" have found at the crash site of Air Canada Flight 621 and where these items would have been found on a DC-8.
UPDATE: Fixed LINKS above!
© Paul Cardin - Friends of Flight 621