DIGISTAR: Swissair Flight 111 Web Site: Crossreference

Swissair SR111 Crash: Supplimentary Web Site.

These are links from the SR111/Air Safety discussion on the CNN discussion board.

There are two versions: the links version, and this crosssreferenced links version, which references the articles where an URL is mentioned. The numbers in the parantheses correspond to the internal numbering that CNN uses, and should take you to the corresponding article.

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

ABS News: Swissair Topnews ( 1643 )
Aviation Week Newsletters ( 902 )
Boeing Aeromagazine ( 676, 865, 1209 )
Boeing Home Page ( 203, 676, 865, 886, 1209 )
Boston Herald ( 1268, 1271 )
canoe home ( 210, 1012 )
Halifax News - Swissair crash page ( 776, 955, 999, 1215, 1943, 1957, 1992, 2127, 2157 )
Halifax Herald ( 18, 19, 103, 144, 257, 318, 327, 352, 406, 554, 622, 625, 629, 678, 711, 755, 784, 798, 850, 853, 1075, 1174, 1403, 1458, 1551, 1618, 1709, 1710, 1949 )
Halifax Herald - Swissair page ( 678 )
Halifax Heralds swissair page ( 103, 257, 798 )
Newsworld online ( 69, 1424 )
OPERATION PERSISTENCE - support to transportation board investigation swissair 111 accident ( 681 )
RCMP Swissair investigation web site ( 1538 )
Swissair Home Page ( 81, 221, 1220, 1451, 1461, 1998, 2165 )
Transportation Safety Board (TSB) ( 1477 )

Misc resources

Seismographic data for Canada ( 1608, 1609 )
Seismographic data for Sept 03 ( 1611 )
Description of Seismic Waves ( 1620 )
Seismic Deformation ( 1621 )
CNN article about seismic center (Timed out) ( 1614 )
ATC conversation (several transcripts) ( 406 )
777 deck ( 180, 200, 883 )
Aviation Safety Web Pages ( 573, 634 )
Aviation Accident Database ( 573, 2052, 2178 )
Aviation acronyms ( 981 )
Glossary of aviation terms including aircraft models (with pictures) ( 1036 )
Avweb NTSB database ( 1137, 1212 )
NTSB.gov ( 1194, 1378, 1783 )
Swissairs questions and answers page ( 2165 )
Aviation Accident Database: breakdown of air accident causes ( 2178 )
THE AVIATION SAFETY SYSTEM - explanation of the system that helps keep USAs airways as safe as possible ( 1258 )
FAA Regulations (250kt rule) ( 1811 )
FAA Regulations (fuel jettison) ( 1814 )
FAA FAR's (Federal Aviation Regulations) ( 2082 )

MD-11

Quicktime Video of MD11 cockpit ( 886 )
Airworthiness Advisories against the MD-11 ( 408 )
Micks MD-11 pics ( 1886 )
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) ( 2179 )
CNN: FAA AD issued to inspect MD-11 lighting dimmer switches ( 2030 )
MD-11 Engine specs ( 2244 )

SR111

SR-111 specific Pictures of the recovered debris (including the pictures of one of the engines) ( 1606 ) QAR - "Third" black box ( 535 ) Pictures of debree on the ocean bed ( 1230, 1257 ) SR111 wing(?) engine picture ( 1551 ) Small debris field shows plane likely hit nose-first ( 629, 711 ) SR111 insulation ( 819 ) Halifax News: Reconstructing cockpit ( 1943 ) Halifax Herald: Arlen Crocker heard a low rumbling sound near his Seabright home on Sept. 2 ( 1949 ) News on temperatures in SR111 ( 1951 )	SR111 transcripts AVWEB transcript ( 824 ) Halifax Herald - flight record ( 144, 318, 554, 1075, 1403, 1458 ) ATC Preliminary transcript ( 97 ) transcript ( 279 ) CNNs transcripts ( 316 ) extracts from the voice recorder ( 830 ) transcript from swissairs site ( 1220 ) The final minutes of Swissair Flight 111 (updated transcript of the final conversations) ( 18 ) transcript from Canadian Transportation Safety Board ( 730, 1240, 1477, 1616, 1979 ) ABC news - swissair transcript ( 849 )
Wiring/fire news stories Experts trace tragic arc - Wiring flaw may have nullified pilot action ( 19 ) Aviation Week: Probe Focus Shifts To Cockpit Fire ( 763 ) Aviation Week: Fire Damage Sought In Cockpit Debris ( 783 ) Swissair investigators confirm 'heat disstress' ( 1644 ) Swissair shuts off the tube - Airline stops using entertainment systems after burned wires found in crash ( 1690 ) Flight 111 video wires damaged - Entertainment grids suspect ( 1709 ) Flight 111 video wires damaged - Entertainment grids suspect (2nd copy) ( 1710 ) NY Times - about entertainment system wiring? ( 1713 ) Fire Traces Found in Jet's Wiring - Swissair Unhooks Gaming Systems; Swissair Gaming System Probed ( 1729 ) Honda Recall (Wiring problems) ( 303 ) USA Today: Aircraft Wiring ( 1982 ) Washington Post: Airplane Wiring ( 1984 ) Kapton Wiring article ( 210 ) Raychem company - Spec 44 and 55 cables widely used in aircraft ( 1592, 1956 )	Other SR111 stories Valley firm to create crash Web site (this is the aaaac.org site) ( 625 ) SR111: last six minutes missing on second black box, too ( 221 ) 'Absolutely catastrophic' 111's flight path 'eerie' - says air controller ( 622 ) Flight 111 recorder data garbled ( 746 ) Insulation blankets suspected - Mylar may have spread fire ( 755 ) Police Warns scavengers ( 955 ) Pilots smelled trouble - probe ( 352 ) Changes in flight recorders possible ( 424 ) Witness: flames in the cockpit ( 327 ) Flight 111 crew lost all main instruments ( 850, 853 ) Flight 111 flew blind in final minutes, voice recorder reveals on ABC report ( 1215 ) Two more victims ID'd ( 1618 ) Halifax News: Meltet material PVC type ( 1992 ) Halifax News: Memorial planned ( 1992 ) Canoe: PVC material and pic of reconstruction jig ( 1993 ) Swissair press release: ( 1998 ) MD-11 in Atlanta is being disassembled to help in the reconstruction of SR111's cockpit ( 2127 ) Halifax News: ( 2157 ) Swiss newspaper on IFES technical problems ( 2191 ) cabin temperature rose to 29°C when the IFES was in use ( 2191 )
Other stories (SR111 related) Replace Insulation, FAA Urges Airlines ( 100, 661 ) MD-11 Automation Assists Pilots, Cuts Workload (even performs checklist tasks) ( 761 ) Aircraft Safety: Blowing Smoke? ( 983 ) FAA directive about insulation ( 1174, 1258 ) Flight Data Recorder Rule Change ( 1209 )	SR111 Memorial and other Swissair Memorial page ( 69, 1886 ) American Chemical Society - Scientists aboard SR111 ( 728 ) Support page for SR111 - guest book ( 786 ) Flight 111 etches painful memories on minds, hearts ( 784, 1949 ) Poem about SR111 victims ( 1886 )

Non-SR11

TWA 800

TWA 800 magnetic interference ( 588, 617, 1071 )
TWA 800 Video Simulation ( 610 )
TWA 800 fuel tank theory ( 1393 )
Cmdr Donaldson summary ( 1416 )
Cmdr Donaldsons report ( 609 )
Elaine Scarry 1 (Electromagnetic Interference) ( 588, 617, 1071 )
Elaine Scarry 2 ( 617, 1071 )
Elaine Scarry 3 ( 617, 1071 )
TWA 800: EMI and TWA800: Critique of a Proposal (Peter B. Ladkin) ( 1970 )
ABC news not to air Oliver Stone's special ( 1972 )

Other planes and incidents

South African Airways incident. ( 516 )
1993 incident ( 185, 209 )
Air Canada 767, July 23, 1983 ( 591 )
June 1983 fire involving a DC-9 where a fire broke out under one of the toilets ( 814, 907 )
B737 crash ( 907 )
Other MD-11 incident (smoke in cockpit) (timed out from top stories) ( 893 )
Charter airplane crashes in Norway; nine killed ( 1070 )
B 767 in 1996 ( )
KLM DC10 that lost several pieces during a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit ( 1188 )
Pilot that tried to take off with faulty engine ( 1117 )
Delta MD80 ( 1271 )
quicktime video clip of the hijacked 767 ditching ( 1225 )
reports of Smoke in the Cockpit since the Swissair 111 crash ( 1424 )
Northwest Flight 255 ( 789 )
Plane hits Ga. 400, kills driver ( 1681 )
9 Minutes, 20 Seconds (Brasilia twin turbo-prop) ( 2049 )
U.S. Helicopter Crashes Off Sicily ( 2136 )
US Plane Has Accident in Antartica ( 2136 )
Plane returns to Hartsfield after smoke detected (NorthWest DC-9) ( 2202 )
Fed Ex plane scrapes tail ( 2218 )

Other news

Nando times had snippet on failing ATC radar systems ( 1986 )

TODO

Still Unclassified

Attorneys ( 340 )
Washington post: Insulation fire (timed out) ( 811 )
controlling aircraft in unusual attitudes ( 676, 865 )
Lawsuit ( 976 )
Pilot sought source of smoke - Co-pilot flew as Swissair captain searched for fire, investigators say (fault codes in the FDR) ( 999 )
A map ( 1230, 1257 )
178 seconds to live ( 1326 )
Swissair press release - Swissair supports FAA endeavours on new insulation materials ( 1451, 1461 )
whole run-down on how the switch works, and some units attached to it ( 1457 )
on insulation ( 355, 1457 )
Beam me up Scotty ( 1545 )
Parachute 1 - Ballistic Recovery Systems ( 376 )
Parachute 2 - Dropzone ( 376 )
Discussion: Disaster in the air ( )
aaaac.org (Atlantic Aviation Accident Assistance Coalition) ( 622 )

New (unclassified)

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