Swissair Flight 111
September 2 1998 MD-11 crash off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Swissair Flight 111 (SR111/SWR111) was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States, to Cointrin Airport in Geneva, Switzerland. The flight was also a codeshare flight with Delta Air Lines.[1] On 2 September 1998, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 performing this flight, registration HB-IWF, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax Stanfield International Airport at the entrance to St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia. The crash site was 8 kilometres (5 mi; 4 nmi) from shore, roughly equidistant from the small fishing and tourist communities of Peggy's Cove and Bayswater. All 229 passengers and crew on board the MD-11 were killed, making the crash the deadliest accident in the history of Swissair and the deadliest accident involving the McDonnell Douglas MD-11. It is also the second-deadliest aviation accident to occur in Canada, behind Arrow Air Flight 1285R.
Accident | |
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Date | 2 September 1998 (1998-09-02) |
Summary | Crashed after in-flight fire |
Site | Atlantic Ocean, 9 km (5.6 mls) southwest off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada 44°24′33″N 63°58′25″W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | McDonnell Douglas MD-11 |
Aircraft name | Vaud |
Operator | Swissair |
IATA flight No. | SR111 |
ICAO flight No. | SWR111 |
Call sign | SWISSAIR 111 |
Registration | HB-IWF |
Flight origin | John F. Kennedy International Airport New York, NY, United States |
Destination | Geneva Airport Geneva, Switzerland |
Occupants | 229 |
Passengers | 215 |
Crew | 14 |
Fatalities | 229 |
Survivors | 0 |
The search and rescue response, crash recovery operation, and investigation by the Government of Canada took more than four years and cost CA$57 million.[2] The investigation carried out by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) concluded that flammable material used in the aircraft's structure allowed a fire to spread beyond the control of the crew, resulting in the crash of the aircraft. Several wide-ranging recommendations were made which were incorporated into newer US Federal Aviation Administration standards.[3]: 253
Swissair Flight 111 was one of two ill-fated flights known as the "UN shuttle" (the other being Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in 2019) because of its popularity with United Nations officials traveling between the organization's two biggest centers.