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The Desperate Journey of Air Canada Flight 143
On July 23, 1983, Air Canada Flight 143 took off from Montreal, bound for Edmonton with a scheduled stopover in Ottawa. Unbeknownst to the 61 passengers and 8 crew members aboard, they were about to be part of one of aviation's most infamous incidents. This is the incredible story of how the flight crew's chain of unlikely errors spiraled into a desperate struggle for survival as the aircraft began to lose power high over the Canadian wilderness.