Air Canada
- IATA/ICAO Code
- AC/ACA
- Airline Type
- Full Service Carrier
- Hub(s)
- Calgary International Airport, Montréal–Trudeau International Airport, Toronto Pearson International Airport, Vancouver International Airport
- Year Founded
- 1965
- Alliance
- Star Alliance
- CEO
- Michael Rousseau
- Country
- Canada
A Canadian Transportation Safety Board (TSB) report has been released after more than two years of work examining and analyzing the events of March 7th, 2020. On this particular day, two Air Canada aircraft experienced a close call and a risk of collision, as a Boeing 777 was cleared for take-off while the Embraer E190 jet ahead of it had rejected its take-off due to a bird strike. The findings from the incident cite radio communication complications and inaccurate transponder data as factors, but, overall, an oversight on the part of air traffic control. While we initially covered this story after it happened two years ago, let’s go over the report’s findings in more detail.
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