On 6 September , TWA Flight 741 from Frankfurt ( a Boeing 707 ) and Swissair Flight 100 from Zürich ( a Douglas DC-8 ) were forced Motion to land at Dawson 's Field .

Arrow Air Flight 1285 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 jetliner that operated Using as an international charter Renting flight carrying Carry_goods U.S. troops from Cairo , Egypt , to their home base in Fort Campbell , Kentucky , via Cologne , West Germany , and Gander , Canada .

, it is the deadliest aviation accident Catastrophe to occur Coming_to_be on Canadian soil and the second-deadliest of any accident Catastrophe involving Cause_to_be_included a DC-8 , behind the crash Catastrophe of Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 six years later .