WATCH: It’s one of the most enduring mysteries in Canadian aviation history and example of terrorism before we really even had a name for it. Ted Chernecki reports.
One by one they read out the names of the 52 passengers and crew members who died 50 years ago today in a plane crash near that remains one of Canada’s greatest aviation mysteries.
On July 8, 1965, an explosion occurred on board Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 from Vancouver to Prince George, sending wreckage down just west of 100 Mile House.
The wreckage is still there, holding clues that suggest a bomb went off in the washroom. Who planted the bomb has never been determined. No one was ever charged but a coroner’s investigation identified four suspects, one of whom took out a $125,000 life insurance policy the day before the flight.
For years after the crash, family and friends could only mourn their loved ones by placing flowers and notes near the aircraft’s debris field. On Wednesday, they visited a stone monument at 100 Mile House Airport that lists the names of every passenger on the doomed flight, even the one responsible for their demise.
“We know whoever did it was on the plane so they died as well,” said supporter Didi Henderson. “God only knows what made someone do something like that.”
To view more photos of the wreckage, click here
-with files from Ted Chernecki, Peter Meiszner and Julia Foy
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