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WARNING!: Description below may be disturbing to some readers.
This view is by the site of the wreckage of the Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 which exploded at 16,000 feet altitude on July 8, 1965, tearing off the tailgate & causing the plane to go down nose first about 60 kilometres west of 100 Mile House, British Columbia, killing all 52 passengers on board. The flight was headed from Vancouver, BC to Whitehorse, Yukon at a time where airport security & screenings were lax. The cause of the accident would be identified as a dynamite/gunpowder bomb containing potassium nitrate that was purposely left in a rear lavatory around 3:30pm. After the plane crashed, three days were spent recovering bodies scattered across several kilometres of rugged forest. Some were burned beyond recognition while others were caught in the trees that broke their fall from 15,000 feet above. The culprit(s) have not been identified, though they were presumably on the flight & to this day this incident remains one of Canada's biggest unsolved cases of mass murder.
There are four names of individuals on the flight who are proposed suspects. They include the following:
Douglas Edgar, a gambler who purchased life insurance moments before boarding.
Stefan Koleszar, a mining-explosives expert with a criminal record.
Peter Broughton, a young man described as a loner with an interest in guns and gunpowder.
Paul Vander Meulen, an individual who had a gun on the plane and was described by his psychiatrist as having a "deep madness toward the world."
This site is relatively close to nearby forest service roads & one does have to negotiate a lot of felled trees & brush to get here. I was not able to locate the main wreckage site & will have to do so on another visit. Here there are a couple etched signatures on the metal shrapnel dating back to 1989, some presumably from hunters. Yet it also appears that family members of victims have also indicated their visit. One such inscription from July 9, 2015 reads, "Wish we could have met you grandpa."
More info here: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/bomb-on-board-canadian-airlines-flight-21/
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