| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | January 02, 1973 |
| Time: | 0834 |
| Location: | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Operator: | Pacific Western Airlines |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Toronto - Edmonton |
| AC Type: | Boeing 707-321C |
| Registration: | CF-PWZ |
| cn / ln: | 18826/389 |
| Aboard: | 5 (passengers:0 crew:5) |
| Fatalities: | 5 (passengers:0 crew:5) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | Landing in poor visibility, turbulence and snow, the cargo plane came in for a landing at a high sink rate. The captain took over the controls to try to arrest the sink rate but the plane crashed into trees, a powerline and finally into a ridge short of the runway. The plane broke in two and was destroyed by fire. |
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