Quick question: Considering all the delays at YYZ, why would they close a runway for some "marathon" fund raiser? (Not to bash charity, but that can be done elsewhere in Toronto). How does that impact operations? It's an annual event (5k run/walk, not a marathon), and it's part of Pearson's public ...

Peter Rowntree, the regional senior investigator for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said in an interview Saturday the amphibious aircraft had departed Muskoka Airport at around 5 p.m. but soon after takeoff, the plane returned to the airport and crashed during the turn. The names of the...

Also:

170078 CYQA MUSKOKA
CYQA RWY 09/27 AND RWY 18/36 CLSD
1706022302 TIL APRX 1706031900

I wonder what is going on.

Runway is 3805' x 75'. Two inches of slush? Yikes.

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/03/police_id_missing_um_student_w.html ANN ARBOR, MI - Police have identified a missing University of Michigan student who rented a small plane that crashed in Canada last week. School of Information doctoral candidate Xin Rong, 27, was last seen on...

Firefighter lost his/her life for the moron passengers all grabbing their luggage before they exit. That shit drives me crazy to see. Why is the general public so dumb? How can we stop this madness in evacuations... Maybe it should be part of the mandatory briefing. The general public doesn't have ...

AVHerald is now reporting that a firefighter was killed.

Toronto (no ECG) $140

There's some aerial footage from one of the news choppers based out of YKZ:

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.2473066