Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21

A month short of 20 years before Air India Flight 182 was blown out of the sky by British Columbia-based terrorists, B,C, had its own aerial mass murder.

Mid-afternoon, July 8, 1965, CPA Flight 21, bound from Vancouver for Whitehorse, YT, exploded in the sky near 100 Mile House, crashing and killing all 52 persons aboard.

It’s B.C.’s worst mass murder and—unlike Air India—has been all but forgotten.

The sad and unsolved story of CPA Flight 21 in next week’s BC Chronicles.

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PHOTO: —A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-6B such as the ill-fated CP 21 that crashed with all aboard in July 1965. —www.propspistonsandoldairliners.blogspot.com