On June 2nd, 1983, Air Canada Flight 797 departed Dallas, Texas, bound for Montreal, Quebec, with a stop in Toronto. Forty-one passengers and five crew were on board. Shortly before 7 pm Eastern time, a fire broke out inside the rear lavatory wall and burned, hidden and undetected, for nearly fifteen minutes before anyone smelled smoke.

The crew declared an emergency and landed safely at Greater Cincinnati International Airport in Covington, Kentucky. The airplane touched down intact. Sixty to ninety seconds after the cabin doors opened, a flashfire rolled through the interior. Twenty-three passengers did not get out.
Among the dead was Stan Rogers, folk musician, husband, father, born in Hamilton, Ontario. He was thirty-three years old, returning home after performing at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas.

The investigation that followed reshaped aviation safety standards worldwide.

Sources:
Air Canada Flight 797
Aviation Safety Network | Transcript of Air Canada Flight 797 - 02 JUN 1983
Stan Rogers | Spotify
Fogarty's Cove Music
Stan Rogers Folk Festival
Stan Rogers intros & sings "Barrett's Privateers" in One Warm Line documentary

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