A Tragedy Remembered... Flight 621 -- CBC's The National for July 5, 2010

On a July morning in 1970, Lynda Weinberg Fishman lost her beloved mother and two young sisters Carla and Wendy in a catastrophic airplane crash. For eight years, our group Friends of Flight 621 has worked tirelessly to have this deliberately forgotten spot in Brampton, the site where 109 people died, preserved and a memorial established. With the help of so many wonderful people, we have succeeded at last. (report by Peter Wall / CBC)

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[AndyMcArren1356]

finally! someone posted about flight 621!!! thx!

[ZandraKim]

@ AndyMcArren1356 and CHF2...

As the videographer Peter Wall says so well of Lynda Fishman...

"the tragedy has eclipsed much of her life. To move forward, she is looking back..."

So many we have spoken with, all united in some way by this long-ago event.

I was too close - too young - and could in no way help anyone when it happened.

I had to change something now, but could not alone... so fortunately I found

those who understood why this was needed, even after so many years.

[CaptZdq1]

My brother-in-law was a purser for Air Canada and he had the LA run so he was meeting a lot of stars. He was scheduled for this flight but was switched with someone else the week before. Such a horribly tragic crash.

[TheMusicnut1965]

I was 5yrs old and lived in the farmhouse near the crash site, waking up to a huge BOOM sound and breaking glass flew on me as i was in my bed. I remember lookin out the window and what i saw was awful and the smell of burnin wreckage and etc was horrible... to this day i still tense up with fear when i hear a plane flyin low.

[ChicaTheLadybug]

I was 8 years old and lived in Malton. We saw the smoke and it was pretty scary. My neighbour was an embalmist and helped recover the peoples' remains that were kept on the ice at the arena in Woodbridge. My husband's uncle was one of the first policemen at the site. I remember feeling very sad and scared.

[robertkurt2]

I wonder why the TV shows "Mayday" or "Air Crash Investigations" never did an episode on this crash.

I also wonder why our sissy "pull down your pants and bend over" government would even consider allowing any development on that ground.

And shame on Air Canada for not offering their support. WestJet or any American airline would have offered their support.

[TheBottledair]

Good to see that Lynda refused for the crash site to be built on, just shows how callous some people are considering that Human remains still exist on that field. It would be impossible to search for EVERY SINGLE FRAGMENT so the field should be a memorial field dedicated to the people that lost their lives in the crash. It would be sad if that field is forgotten about and built on.

[tiadaid]

It is bad publicity to be associated with an air crash. It's even worse to be seen as a company who doesn't care about the victims of that air crash. Air Canada would have been better off to acknowledge the crash & the people who are most affected by the crash after all these years.

[antimatterXXXIII]

The pilots of this flight went round and round with each other about this problem, with the captain finally relenting to the first officer's demand for spoilers on the flare, which would lead to a smoother landing in most cases. A misinterpreted verbal signal from the captain caused the first officer to deploy the spoilers in flight. The airplane sank immediately and contacted the runway very hard, damaging an engine and causing a fuel fire that led to the destruction of the wing. All died.

[antimatterXXXIII]

RE this most tragic accident - the DC-8 had an issue with operation of the spoilers, which kill the lift on the wing and so keep the plane on the runway after touchdown. These were to be armed in flight according to SOP, and deployed after touchdown. But arming them in flight was considered dangerous and so pilots made their own rules - some would arm and deploy on the flare, which was strictly against SOP.

[MegaMuslimsrule]

Thanks!