TORONTO - Runways at Canadian airports are falling short of international standards, and Ottawa needs to mandate extended safety zones to prevent crashes like the one that sent an Air France jet hurtling into a ravine in stormy weather, a report said Wednesday.

The Transportation Safety Board did not blame the pilot and his crew in its final report on what caused Flight 358 to skid off a runway at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Aug. 2, 2005, during torrential rain.

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