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Arrow Air — 25 years later

A quarter century has passed since Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed 73 seconds after it lifted off a Gander runway on Dec. 12, 1985. Two hundred and fifty-six people died — 248 U.S. soldiers and eight crewmembers. It remains the deadliest...

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Bernie Caiger (right), senior research officer with the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, and Mike Renton, a technician with the NRC, look over the data recorders in Ottawa from an Arrow Air DC-8 that crashed in Gander Dec. 12, 1985. — File photo by Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press

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Robert Smith: - May 12, 2013; - 21 h 27

Did you interview any members of the Canadian Forces who were at the crash site? Have any personnel at the crash site suffered health problems?

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