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Tape reveals pilot co pilots concerns before Air Canada crash
A federal inquiry released tape shows Captain Peter Hamilton and First Officer Donald Rowland arguing over spoiler deployment four minutes before Air Canada DC8 crash near Toronto. The jet hit the runway at 32 minutes into the recording, engine failures followed, a wing tore away and the aircraft crashed three miles from the airport with 109 dead including 27 Americans.
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