AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS

On 2 September 1998 Swissair Flight SR 111 departed New York on a scheduled flight to Geneva Switzerland with 215 passengers and 14 crew members on board. About 53 minutes after departure the flight crew smelled an abnormal odour in the cockpit. They decided to divert to the Halifax International Airport. They were unaware that a fire was spreading above the ceiling in the front area of the aircraft. They would never make it to Halifax 20 minutes after the first detection of smoke in the cabin the aircraft crashed in the North Atlantic near Peggy's Cove Nova Scotia Canada. There were no survivors 229 people died in the incident.