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Just testing. Fire and ambulance crews attend to victims yesterday after a mock plane crash at the Toronto Island Airport. In the simulated disaster, (...)
Just testing. Fire and ambulance crews attend to victims yesterday after a mock plane crash at the Toronto Island Airport. In the simulated disaster, (...)

Just testing. Fire and ambulance crews attend to victims yesterday after a mock plane crash at the Toronto Island Airport. In the simulated disaster, (...)

Date6/22/1991
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  • Just testing. Fire and ambulance crews attend to victims yesterday after a mock plane crash at the Toronto Island Airport. In the simulated disaster, (...)
  • Just testing. Fire and ambulance crews attend to victims yesterday after a mock plane crash at the Toronto Island Airport. In the simulated disaster; dubbed Aquarius; a plane with 33 passengers and a crew of four loses power on takeoff and crashes on the runway. Part of the fuselage slides into the lake.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Just testing. Fire and ambulance crews attend to victims yesterday after a mock plane crash at the Toronto Island Airport. In the simulated disaster; dubbed Aquarius; a plane with 33 passengers and a crew of four loses power on takeoff and crashes on the runway. Part of the fuselage slides into the lake.
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