Royal Canadian Air Force crashed into Gander Lake immediately after takeoff killing the entire crew. On 18 September 1946, 27 people died when a SABENA Douglas DC-4 (OO-CBG) crashed 35 km short of Gander Airport, where the aircraft planned to land for a refueling stop on the flight from Brussels to New York. At the time of the accident (07:42 UTC), there was dense fog near the airport, and the pilot executed a flawed approach at too low an altitude. There were 17 survivors (16 passengers and one crew). On Wednesday 5 May 1948, a Douglas C-47A-30-DK, NC17645, of Superior Oil Company departed from Gander en route to Shannon Airport and disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean with three fatalities. On 18 April 1953, a Lockheed Ventura, CF-FAW, with four crew members of Spartan Air Services disappeared after departing Gander on a flight to Ottawa. On 25 August 1954, a Lockheed L-749 Constellation F-BAZI of Air France of flight AF075 on the Paris–Shannon–Gander–New York–Mexico City route overran the runway and crashed into a ravine upon landing. On Thursday 18 March 1965, Douglas C-47A-30-DK, N4997E, of Miami Aviation departed Gander for Santa Maria, Portugal and crashed into the Trinity Bay area killing the two crewmembers on board. On 5 September 1967 an Ilyushin Il-18 (registration OK-WAI) of Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie (ČSA) Flight 523 crashed on climbout heading east on runway 13 while on a Prague-Shannon-Gander-Havana passenger service, killing 37 of 69 on board; the cause was never determined. On 12 December 1985 Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed on take-off from the then runway 22. The disaster claimed the lives of 8 crew and 248 soldiers of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division who were returning home for Christmas from a peacekeeping deployment in the Middle East. The impact on the south side of the Trans-Canada Highway on the shore of Gander Lake left a charred clearing in the forest where a memorial now stands to those who died in Canada's most deadly air crash. On 17 December 1998 an Antonov An-124, RA-82046 of Volga-Dnepr Airlines landed on runway 13 and slid off the runway and came to rest 60 metres from the button of runway 31. The aircraft was embedded in mud and no. 4 engine caught on fire. See also North Atlantic Aviation Museum References Mac Moss. Flown into the Arms of Angels: Newfoundland and Labrador's Unsung Heroes of 9/11 External