I have lived in Edmonton all my life and I keep hearing talk about a PWA 707 that crashed just a few miles from YEG in the 70s.Apparentley the aircraft was arriving in fog and clipped some power lines on approach and crashed near Leduc killing the crew and the cargo(cows).Thats all I know,could someone give me more info on this????
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Originally posted by YEG boyI have lived in Edmonton all my life and I keep hearing talk about a PWA 707 that crashed just a few miles from YEG in the 70s.Apparentley the aircraft was arriving in fog and clipped some power lines on approach and crashed near Leduc killing the crew and the cargo(cows).Thats all I know,could someone give me more info on this????
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AD just has the PWA(737) 1978 crash in Cranbrook BC.
Looking around on Google and other sites, I couldn't find any PWA crash in Edmonton. The one above is listed in a few Candaian 'date' and 'disaster' sites, but nothing related to Edmonton/Leduc/CYEG/YEG/707.
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Source : once again the un-comparable www.aerotransport.org
first type in blank space within rectangle PWA and click on Fetch-More entry
get a table of all PWAs
select the canadian airline
get the fleet summary
below this table, click on All Fleets entry to get the fleet details
Now your question answered
Aircraft : Boeing 707-321C, PA ntu, delivered to CO, 1964
Rego : CF-PWZ
msn : 18826
cn : 389
ttl hours : 33,059
cycles : 9,458
previous identity : N17322 Continental
5 crew members, 86 cows bound to Edmonton from Toronto
fate : destroyed 02-01-1973 Telford-Lake, Leduc, Edmonton, Alberta
More on the accident on http:/:aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19730102-0
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On the ground at Toronto cattle pens were installed and a cargo of 86 cattle was loaded. The Boeing 707 took off at 04:47 GMT for a flight to Edmonton. The en route part of the flight was...
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