Toronto – Montreal

On March 18, 1930 at 11:30 AM, Toronto – Montreal experienced a crash involving Travel Air 6000, operated by Canadian Airways, with the event recorded near Long Lake Ontario.

The flight was categorized as postal (mail) and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The crew departed Toronto on a mail flight to Montreal. En route, he encountered engine problems and attempted an emergency landing when the aircraft crashed nose first in the frozen Long Lake, some 11 km south of Perth. The aircraft was destroyed and both crew members were killed. Seven sacks of mail were recovered. Crew: Harold Robinson, Hervé Simoneau.

Aircraft reference details include registration CF-AJO, MSN 2005, year of manufacture 1929.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 44.7944°, -76.2448°.