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Passengers on board an Air Canada flight from Antigua to Toronto are demanding answers after a series of mishaps – including a “terrifying” aborted take-off and an emergency landing – left some wondering if they would finish the trip alive.

They say the captain explained he stopped the plane just before going airborne because he had neglected to activate an on-board computer.

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The emergency landing was blamed on faulty fuel distribution, similar to a problem the crew addressed before they left Antigua.

Passengers question whether the Airbus A319 should have taken off at all on June 3 after its earlier troubles.

“It was the absolute worst and most terrifying flight experience I’ve ever had,” said Dan Fuller, 33, a Toronto-based Internet entrepreneur. “There were too many incidents that were occurring back to back to back to think everything was done by the book.”

But Air Canada says the aborted take-off, while rare, was at the relatively low speed of 80 knots – and well within safety parameters – and the plane had no known safety issues when it eventually left the Caribbean island.