CV scientists plane shot down (Iran)

 Canadian scientists killed in plane crash

According to recent news reports, one scientist was killed and two others injured in a plane crash near Corner Brook, Newfoundland, on August 10, 2024. The aircraft, contracted by the federal fisheries department, was carrying three employees from the department and a pilot to survey marine animals. The deceased scientist was part of this group. The investigation is ongoing, and no further details on the cause of the crash have been released. This incident is unrelated to the Brazil plane crash that occurred on August 12, 2024, which involved a different aircraft and 62 fatalities.

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Plane shot down by Iran had dozens of Canadian scientists on board

By Rebecca Trager15 January 2020

Dozens of scientists and graduate students from universities across Canada perished in the Ukrainian Airlines flight that was en route to Toronto before being shot down shortly after taking off from Iran.

Sixty-three of the 176 people aboard the flight were Canadian. The nation’s academic community was particularly hard-hit. The University of Alberta in Edmonton lost eight current science faculty and students, among them two newly-wed computer science graduate students who were returning to Canada after their wedding in Iran. Six University of Toronto science students also died – five PhD candidates and one undergraduate – and Western University in London, Ontario lost four chemistry and engineering graduate students.