Swissair Flight 111 (SR-111, SWR-111) was a Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on a scheduled airline flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States to Cointrin International Airport in Geneva, Switzerland. This flight was likewise a codeshare flight with Delta Air Lines. On Wednesday, 2 September 1998 the aircraft used for the flight, registered HB-IWF, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax International Airport at the entrance to St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia. The crash internet site was 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from shore, roughly equidistant from the tiny fishing and tourist communities of Peggys Cove and Bayswater. All 229 humans on board died.[231] It was the highest-ever death toll of any aviation accident involving a McDonnell Douglas MD-11. The firstborn search and rescue response, crash recovery operation, and resulting investigation by the Government of Canada took over four years and cost CAD 57 million (at that time approximately USD 38 million).[247] The Transportation Safety Board of Canada's (TSB) official report of their investigation stated that flammable material employed in the aircraft's structure permitted a fire to disseminate beyond the control of the crew, resulting in the loss of control and crash of the aircraft.[257] Swissair Flight 111 was known as the "U.N. shuttle" due to it is popularity with United Nations officials; the flight often times carried business executives, scientists, and researchers.[271] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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There isn't a connection. Pan Am was on it's way out for years. TWA tanked because of labor costs and unprofitable routes. SwissAir is still going strong, as is Egypt Air.
Boeing is going gangbusters – currently they are turning orders away and will be doing so for the next several years. Lockheed-Martin is still doing it's thing.
An aside, but something interesting, is that Egypt Air crash. There's a lot of reason to speculate that that was a dry-run by Al Qaeda. The Atlantic Monthly did a fascinating cover story about it a few years ago… might have been prior to 9/11, even, though I don't recall for sure.