Just happened to catch a Mayday show on Discovery about this crash. 229 died, it hit St Margarets Bay at an estimated 350Gs.
Only one body was identifiable by sight, the rest were identified by DNA and dental records. Most of the body parts were just small pieces of flesh and organs. They found over 2 million pieces of the aircraft and used a dredge to recover a lot of it. It was in 180 ft of water. All of the local fishermen who heard the crash jumped in their boats to go search, they were there already when Coast Guard, rcmp, and Navy showed up.
There was a fire in the cockpit, they recovered melted aluminum from the cockpit area
The crash happened near Peggys Cove at about 10:30pm, I live about 45 minutes from there by car. I had gone to sleep and didnt hear anything but my neighbours heard the bang. They searched shoreline over a wide area, including in front of my house.
You may catch the Mayday show, there is some search video on there, plus this wiki is fairly detailed.
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We went to the memorial site when we were there af ew years back. The person we were visiting took us out there was involved in the incident.
Might have to watch the episode.
There is a YouTube on the investigation as well I discovered after posting above.
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63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
Such a tragedy. I remember years ago flying to Bali. For 12 hours there was turbulence, lightning, and nothing but ocean. A real pucker factor.
My wife often watches Mayday a few weeks before we fly anywhere. It is fascinating how they piece together what happened and work to correct procedures or designs.
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I spent a couple of week there on HMCS Halifax, we were anchored at the crash site. they were using our hangar as a morgue storing body parts as they brought them up. the bosons said any bodies they brought up had no head or feet, everything above or below the seat was sheared off. You slam a 300 ft aircraft into 180 ft of water, its like hitting concrete there was nothing above the water complete accordioned in. i had alot of time to reflect as we were moored at the site. i had one buddy have a body bag break open as they were lifting it on board. he was under the bag. hes on a medical pension now.
My friend worked for the coroner and set up the morgue at Shearwater. He also worked on the Cormorant crash near Canso during a night practise.
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63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
I spent a couple of week there on HMCS Halifax, we were anchored at the crash site. they were using our hangar as a morgue storing body parts as they brought them up. the bosons said any bodies they brought up had no head or feet, everything above or below the seat was sheared off. You slam a 300 ft aircraft into 180 ft of water, its like hitting concrete there was nothing above the water complete accordioned in. i had alot of time to reflect as we were moored at the site. i had one buddy have a body bag break open as they were lifting it on board. he was under the bag. hes on a medical pension now.
I can't even imagine. What do you even say to someone who's lived that?
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