World record-setting flight orbiting CN Tower for elder abuse awareness
Posted November 12, 2022 10:21 am.
Last Updated November 12, 2022 10:29 am.
If you keep your eyes to the sky in Toronto on Saturday you could witness a world record being broken — one local organization has come up with a unique way of raising awareness and donations for a good cause.
Mike Bremner will fly an aircraft 83 times around the CN Tower on Saturday to raise awareness against elder abuse and raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada.
Bremner is the flight lead of the Elder Abuse Air Force — a sub group within the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly in Toronto. The flight will break the world record for most orbits around a free-standing structure.
The Cessna 172 aircraft took off around 9 a.m. At 1 p.m. a 3-aircraft formation from The Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association is expected to join Bremner for the final two orbits.
“Harvard aircraft used to train pilots in WWII are representative of the greatest generation. The generation we need to protect,” Bremner says.
Bremner, a Toronto native, says he became passionate about the cause after his 87-year-old mother had capital stolen from her by a “family member acting as a Power of Attorney.”
You can watch part of the flight from Bremner’s cockpit through a livestream on the Elder Abuse Awareness Flight Facebook page.
