NewsTracker Answers for week of Feb. 24, 2025

Q: All 80 people aboard a Delta airliner survived last week after the aircraft lost a wing during a hard landing and flipped over at an airport in Ontario. Where is Canada’s province of Ontario?

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Q: All of the passengers and crew ended up suspended upside down in their seats and had to release themselves on to the cabin ceiling to escape the airliner. The Delta Airlines flight started in Minneapolis and landed in the airport serving Canada’s most populous city …

A. Calgary

B. Montreal

C. Ottawa

D. Toronto

D. Toronto, the capital of Ontario, is Canada’s most populous city with a population of more than 2.7 million people. It is followed by Montreal, Quebec, with 1.7 million people and Calgary, Alberta, with 1.3 million people. Canada’s national capital Ottawa, also in Ontario, ranks fourth with more than 1 million people.

Q: The fuselage of the Bombardier CRJ regional jet remained intact and all the seats remained bolted to the flight deck with seat belts holding the occupants. The same type of plane was involved in a mid-air collision that killed 67 people last month near which airport?

A. George Bush Intercontinental

B. John Fitzgerald Kennedy International

C. Ronald Reagan Washington National

D. Ted Stevens Anchorage International

C. An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, was on a landing approach to the Ronald Reagan airport in Washington, D.C., when it collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River on Jan. 30. There were no survivors.

Q: Bombardier CRJ regional jets came in different sizes, carrying from 50 to 104 passengers. They were built from 1991 through 2020 by a company based where in Canada?

A. Alberta

B. British Columbia

C. Ontario

D. Quebec

D. Bombardier was founded in Quebec by Joseph-Armand Bombardier, who invented the snowmobile in the 1930’s after he was unable to get his dying son to a hospital during a blizzard. Starting with snowmobiles, the company grew into a major builder of trains and commercial aircraft. It has sold most operations except for business jet production.

Q: The upside-down airliner came to rest at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in a 710-mile-long region where nearly half of Canada’s population lives. The area extends from Quebec City on the north bank of St. Lawrence River to which Canadian city on the south bank of the Detroit River?

A. Waterloo

B. Windsor

C. Winnipeg

D. Woodstock

B. Windsor is south of Detroit and is the southwest end of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, the most densely populated and heavily industrialized region of Canada. The region along the border with the United States contains seven of Canada’s 12 largest metropolitan areas.