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TV Coverage Of Toronto Plane Crash

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Joseph_Gallant

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A little more than an hour ago (at this writing; I'm writing this message at 5:25 P.M. EDT August 2nd), an Air France Airbus 340 jumbo-jet skidded-off the runway at Pearson Airport in Toronto while trying to land during a severe thunderstorm, and burst into flames.

There are unconfirmed reports that there may be quite a few survivors, including the pilot.

Down here in Boston, the local late-afternoon TV newscasts have dropped their usual format to cover this story. In fact, WBZ-4, which normally broadcasts an hour of news at 4 P.M. and a half-hour at 6, has pre-empted "Dr. Phil" to continue covering this story.

I would suspect that in Toronto, CFTO-9, Global, and CBLT-5 have been running live wall-to-wall coverage, as have CBC's Newsworld and CTV's Newsnet and locally in the GTA, Citypulse 24.

Has there been live wall-to-wall TV coverage on CITY-57 (perhaps simulcasting Citypulse 24) and/or CHCH-11 (perhaps simulcasting the Global stations if they've been doing wall-to-wall coverage)??

Have Canada's over-the-air TV networks, CBC, CTV and Global, been carrying wall-to-wall live coverage nationally??
 
> Have Canada's over-the-air TV networks, CBC, CTV and Global,
> been carrying wall-to-wall live coverage nationally??

What I've seen in Vancouver...

CBUT/2 and CBC Newsworld: simulcast CBC network coverage

CHAN/8: what I assume to be simulcast of local coverage from CIII Global Toronto (judging from graphics) until 3:30-ish PT; Global network coverage thereafter

CIVT/32: CTV network coverage until about 3:15pm PT, then resumed regular programming

There was coverage on CTV Newsnet and RDI (CBC's French news channel) as well, but I didn't stick around those 2 networks long enough. Even BBC World was carrying live coverage.

No coverage on the other Vancouver/Victoria locals.<P ID="signature">______________
Derek
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.tvvancouver.cjb.net>TV.Vancouver</a>: Covering TV stations in Vancouver, BC</P>
 
Well I noticed CNN talking to the reporters from CITY-TV, CBC, Global and CTV all day as well as the passengers who were on that plane and the witnesses who saw the Airbus jet burst into flames off the runway at Pearson. And from the way they described it they were lucky that everyone made it out alive.

Interestingly, the citytv reporter said that a person who happens to work at the station had a relative who was on that flight. Luckily that person survived.
 
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