"We're aware of the report," press secretary Mike McCurry told reporters. Rescuers were fighting driving rains and rough seas early today as they searched the waters off Nova Scotia for survivors. It had first tried to make it to Halifax Airport, Lingley said. The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. The cause of the crash is not yet clear, but US intelligence sources said they had no reason to suspect terrorism. The Mayor's Office of Emergency Management was directing airport personnel and preparing them to meet family members arriving there to find news about their loved ones. Witnesses said the night was clear and calm. It therefore retained only that half-hour of the flight before the recorders failed, six minutes before the crash.Aircraft certification standards for material flammability were inadequate in that they allowed the use of materials that could be ignited and sustain or propagate fire. Plane Crashes Into Home. When a box was full, it was weighed and moved to a custom-built temporary structure (J-Hangar) on a discontinued runway for long-term storage. 15 June 1998 ZE732 a Panavia Tornado F.3 of No. With Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors. "The whole house shook like something bumped against it," the Canadian Press Agency quoted a woman who lives in Blandford as saying. Veronica Le Blanc of Blandford said she and her husband heard a large plane zoom over their home and moments later heard a bang that shook their house. The TSB team had to reconstruct the last six minutes of flight entirely from the physical evidence. 7:17. Then came a sudden noise. The plane crashed between the islands and the mainland, in the Pacific Ocean, north of Los Angeles and south of Santa Barbara. "There was no flame that we could see," said witness Audrey Bachman. All 229 passengers and crew were killed in what was the worst crash in Swissair's history. The search and rescue response, crash recovery operation, and investigation by the Swissair Flight 111 was known as the "UN shuttle" because of its popularity with The in-flight entertainment system was the first of its kind equipped on the plane. Mike Considine of the Canadian search and rescue operation in Halifax said that at least six helicopters and several jets were on the way to the scene. October 13, 1998 / 11:38 AM / AP A plane for a traffic-reporting service crashed into a home in heavy fog Tuesday morning, setting it afire. Air traffic control audio: Southwest flight suffers catastrophic engine failure - … According to rescue services, the pilot of flight SR-111 reported smoke in the cabin and requested an emergency landing at about 2115 local time (0115 BST). Lt. Cmdr. Recovered fragments of the plane show that the heat inside the cockpit became so great that aluminium parts in the flight deck ceiling had melted. Nonetheless it continued the approach. From 1982 to 1990, he had been a pilot in the Swiss Air Force.At 22:18 AT (01:18 UTC), Moncton Centre handed over traffic control of the plane to In accordance with the Swissair checklist 'In case of smoke of unknown origin', the crew shut off power to the cabin, which also turned off the recirculating fans in the cabin's ceiling.
On 2 September 1998, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 performing this flight, registration HB-IWF, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax International Airport at the entrance to St. Margarets Bay… A USAF Thunderbirds pilot ejects from his General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon less than a second before it hits the ground. This is the company's first crash since 1979, when a Swissair DC-8 overshot the runway at Athens and burst into flames, killing 14 people. "It was the worst-sounding deep groan that I've ever heard," said one local resident. "Even if it did hit the ocean, there was no flame we could see."
"It's as good of conditions as our emergency people could expect right now," said Considine. One is to the east of the crash site at The Whalesback, a A further permanent memorial, albeit not publicly accessible, was created inside the Operations Center at Zürich Airport where a simple plaque on the ground floor in the centre opening of a spiral staircase pays tribute to the victims. 21 July 1997 XX710 a Scottish Aviation Bulldog T.1 of Manchester University Air Squadron lost power on take-off from RAF Woodvale and crashed, two killed. 1998: All feared dead in Swissair crash A Swissair plane flying from New York to Geneva has crashed in the sea off the coast of Nova Scotia, just over an hour after taking off.
June 3, 1998 / 1:21 PM / AP A small airplane crashed into a house in North Carolina Wednesday and caught fire. It was installed in first class five months later, in February 1998, due to delivery delays.The pilot-in-command was 50-year-old Urs Zimmermann. Meanwhile, U.S. officials dispatched a 10-person team from the National Transportation Safety Board to the site. Before his career with Swissair, he was a fighter pilot in the The first officer, 36-year-old Stefan Löw, had approximately 4,800 hours of total flying time, including 230 hours on the MD-11. The Most Horrible Plane Crash Accident In The World - YouTube "Then we didn't hear anything else."
U.S. "I'm kind of in shock."