DIGISTAR: Swissair Flight 111 Web Site: Main Page

Swissair SR111 Crash: Supplimentary Web Site.

These are links from the SR111/Air Safety discussion on the CNN discussion board. I've tried to keep all of the URLs mentioned, so you can take a look here for something you remember having seen before.

There are two versions of this page, this links version, and the crosssreferenced links version.

The discussion is up at CNNs discussion board, under Air Safety.

Stuarts SR111 page keeps information about the SR111 crash.

General

News/investigation sites/magazines

Misc resources

MD-11

Quicktime Video of MD11 cockpit
Airworthiness Advisories against the MD-11
Micks MD-11 pics
link suggests that the MD-11 has a tendency to go "nose up" on landing (follow the links on this site - select "database", then 1997, then find "Federal", then take the accident report link at the end of the short report)
CNN: FAA AD issued to inspect MD-11 lighting dimmer switches
MD-11 Engine specs

SR111

SR-111 specific Pictures of the recovered debris (including the pictures of one of the engines) QAR - "Third" black box Pictures of debree on the ocean bed SR111 wing(?) engine picture Small debris field shows plane likely hit nose-first SR111 insulation Halifax News: Reconstructing cockpit Halifax Herald: Arlen Crocker heard a low rumbling sound near his Seabright home on Sept. 2 News on temperatures in SR111	SR111 transcripts AVWEB transcript Halifax Herald - flight record ATC Preliminary transcript transcript CNNs transcripts extracts from the voice recorder transcript from swissairs site The final minutes of Swissair Flight 111 (updated transcript of the final conversations) transcript from Canadian Transportation Safety Board ABC news - swissair transcript
Wiring/fire news stories Experts trace tragic arc - Wiring flaw may have nullified pilot action Aviation Week: Probe Focus Shifts To Cockpit Fire Aviation Week: Fire Damage Sought In Cockpit Debris Swissair investigators confirm 'heat disstress' Swissair shuts off the tube - Airline stops using entertainment systems after burned wires found in crash Flight 111 video wires damaged - Entertainment grids suspect Flight 111 video wires damaged - Entertainment grids suspect (2nd copy) NY Times - about entertainment system wiring? Fire Traces Found in Jet's Wiring - Swissair Unhooks Gaming Systems; Swissair Gaming System Probed Honda Recall (Wiring problems) USA Today: Aircraft Wiring Washington Post: Airplane Wiring Kapton Wiring article Raychem company - Spec 44 and 55 cables widely used in aircraft	Other SR111 stories Valley firm to create crash Web site (this is the aaaac.org site) SR111: last six minutes missing on second black box, too 'Absolutely catastrophic' 111's flight path 'eerie' - says air controller Flight 111 recorder data garbled Insulation blankets suspected - Mylar may have spread fire Police Warns scavengers Pilots smelled trouble - probe Changes in flight recorders possible Witness: flames in the cockpit Flight 111 crew lost all main instruments Flight 111 flew blind in final minutes, voice recorder reveals on ABC report Two more victims ID'd Halifax News: Meltet material PVC type Halifax News: Memorial planned Canoe: PVC material and pic of reconstruction jig Swissair press release: MD-11 in Atlanta is being disassembled to help in the reconstruction of SR111's cockpit Halifax News: Swiss newspaper on IFES technical problems cabin temperature rose to 29°C when the IFES was in use
Other stories (SR111 related) Replace Insulation, FAA Urges Airlines MD-11 Automation Assists Pilots, Cuts Workload (even performs checklist tasks) Aircraft Safety: Blowing Smoke? FAA directive about insulation Flight Data Recorder Rule Change	SR111 Memorial and other Swissair Memorial page American Chemical Society - Scientists aboard SR111 Support page for SR111 - guest book Flight 111 etches painful memories on minds, hearts Poem about SR111 victims

Non-SR11

TWA 800

Other planes and incidents

Other news

Nando times had snippet on failing ATC radar systems

TODO

Still Unclassified

Attorneys
Washington post: Insulation fire (timed out)
controlling aircraft in unusual attitudes
Lawsuit
Pilot sought source of smoke - Co-pilot flew as Swissair captain searched for fire, investigators say (fault codes in the FDR)
A map
178 seconds to live
Swissair press release - Swissair supports FAA endeavours on new insulation materials
whole run-down on how the switch works, and some units attached to it
on insulation
Beam me up Scotty
Parachute 1 - Ballistic Recovery Systems
Parachute 2 - Dropzone
Discussion: Disaster in the air
aaaac.org (Atlantic Aviation Accident Assistance Coalition)

New (unclassified)

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