- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | September 09, 1949 |
Time: | 10:45 |
Location: | Sault-aux-Cochons, PQ, Canada |
Operator: | Canadian Pacific Air Lines |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Montreal - Comeau Bay |
AC Type: | Douglas DC-3 |
Registration: | CF-CUA |
cn / ln: | 4518 |
Aboard: | 23 (passengers:19 crew:4) |
Fatalities: | 23 (passengers:19 crew:4) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The aircraft disintegrated in flight 40 miles outside of Quebec. Detonation of a dynamite bomb in the forward baggage compartment. Planted by Albert Guay, a jeweler, in a plot to kill his wife who was a passenger on the plane. Guay, who assembled the bomb, had his accomplice, Marguerite Pitre, air express the bomb on the aircraft. Ms. Pitre's brother, a clockmaker, helped make the timing mechanism. The insurance policy was for $15,000. All three were hanged for their crimes. |
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