Canadian Jetliner Off Course, Flies to Wrong City
The Canadian Aviation Safety Board is investigating a bizarre incident last week in which a Canadian Airlines jet went more than 1,200 kilometers off course.
Canadian Airlines Flight 184, a Boeing 737, left Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, on Saturday for Cambridge Bay in the province but instead arrived at Churchill, Manitoba. Board officials are still trying to figure out how the plane got so far off track.
Cambridge Bay, near the Arctic Circle, is about 900 kilometers northeast of Yellowknife. Churchill is 1,100 kilometers southeast of Yellowknife on the shores of Hudson Bay.
The flight is a routine, twice-weekly route from Edmonton to Yellowknife, Cambridge Bay, Resolute Bay, Iqaluit and Montreal. There were 31 passengers on board.
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