Rogers died alongside 22 other passengers most likely of smoke inhalation on June 2 , 1983 , while traveling on Air Canada Flight 797 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) after performing at the Kerrville Folk Festival . The airliner was flying from Dallas , Texas , to Toronto and Montreal when a fire of unknown ignition source within the vanity or toilet shroud of the aft washroom forced it to make an emergency landing at the Greater Cincinnati Airport in northern Kentucky
Air Canada Flight 797
Air Canada Flight 797
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