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OnThisDay in 1998, Swissair Flight 111 suffers a catastrophic cockpit
The crashed plane was a MD-11 three engine wide body passenger plane belonging to Swissair with the number HB-IWF. After crashing into the Atlantic Ocean, the plane disintegrated, and 229 people on board survived. This incident undoubtedly made Swissair, which was originally in poor operating conditions, worse.
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The DC-10-61 was designed to be a high-capacity medium-range aircraft. It would have a fuselage stretch of 40 feet (12 m) over the earlier DC-10 models, enabling it to carry 390 passengers in a mixed class or 550 passengers in an all-economy layout, similar to Boeing 's later 777-300 and Airbus A340-600.
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A Swissair MD-11 aircraft, pictured in 1997, similar to the one that crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1998. (Aero Icarus via Wikimedia Commons) "UN Shuttle" Swissair 111 departed New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at 8:18 p.m. Eastern Time on the evening of 2 September 1998, en route to Geneva, Switzerland.
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Swissair flight 111, flight of a passenger airliner that crashed on September 2, 1998, off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing all 229 on board. The subsequent investigation determined that faulty wires caused the plane's flammable insulation to catch fire. Swissair flight 111 was a regularly scheduled flight from New York City to Geneva.
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On September 2, 1998, exactly 24 years ago today, a seven-year-old Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 with the registration number HB-IWF crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia killing all 229 passengers and crew. To this day, it remains the deadliest accident involving a McDonnell Douglas MD-11.
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The MD-11 aircraft crashed off the Canadian coast as the pilot and crew prepared for an emergency landing after reporting smoke in the cockpit. Swiss Air: Worst disaster in 20 years
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10:25 p.m. Halifax loses contact with the plane. Vic Gerden, lead investigator into the crash of Swissair Flight 111 off Peggys Cove, N.S., stands in front of the plane's cockpit at the.
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The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 with 215 passengers and 14 crew members on board, was on a scheduled flight from New York, United States of America, to Geneva, Switzerland. Summary of occurrence About 53 minutes after departure, while flying at Flight Level 330 (about 33,000 feet), the flight crew smelled an abnormal odour in the cockpit.
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The crash of the Swissair MD-11, which had left New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport en route to Geneva, killed all 229 people aboard, and left investigators puzzling over both its cause and circumstances. The last message recorded from the doomed aircraft by air traffic controllers was: "We have to land immediately."
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Swissair Flight 111, an MD-11 was a flight on September 2, 1998 between New York City and Geneva with a total of 229 people on board the aircraft. The Crash:.
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Reg. Z-BAV. Operator. Avient Aviation. Age. 19.1 years. Status. Written Off. McDonnell Douglas MD-11 with registration HB-IWF airframe details and operator history including first flight and delivery dates, seat configurations, engines, fleet numbers and names.
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The Swissair MD-11 AOM contains landing graphs that flight crew can use to calculate anticipated landing distances. These graphs provide landing information for 35-degree and 50-degree flap settings, predicated on aircraft landing weight, airport elevation, wind component, and runway surface conditions..
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It was one of Swissair's three-engine MD-11s which was scheduled to operate a regular transatlantic journey from New York City to Geneva, Switzerland on the second of September 1998. In command.
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On 2 September 1998, an MD-11 aircraft belonging to Swissair, crashed into the sea off Nova Scotia following an in-flight electrical fire. Event Details When 02/09/1998 Event Type AW , FIRE , LOC Day/Night Night Flight Conditions IMC Flight Details Aircraft MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD-11 Operator Swissair Type of Flight Public Transport (Passenger)
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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 .
