Swissair SR111 Crash: Supplimentary Web Site.
Eyewitness Index:
"There was a thud, then silence":
Bayswater, North West Cove:
"Didn't sound quite right,":
Bayswater:
"Most of us thought it was going to come right through our houses,":
Big Tancook Island:
"If [it] had gone down a minute before, it likely would've hit their community":
Blandford, Clayton Park:
"The force of the crash shook the pictures off her walls":
Blandford:
"heard the plane go over our home, then ... quite an explosion,"
Blandford - Audrey Bachman:
"...sound of an engine going overhead .. then ... vibration on the house":
Blandford - Linda Farmer:
"thought it was a helicopter...big boom...right overhead, very low...droning":
Blandford - Edie Boyle:
"There was little noise to alert them to the tragedy.":
Peggys Cove - "Residents"
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"no lights outside...inside lit up like hotel...almost see passengers":
Indian Harbour - Harry Publicover:
"glow from left wing back / flames in front of left wing":
New Harbour - Brenda Murphy:
"It passed right over my house,, at about 800 feet up.":
New Harbour - Brenda Murphy:
"Low rumbling sound":
Seabright:
"... descended to 10,000 feet ... dumped fuel ... made
two
"orbits": Gerden said.
"The plane disappeared from radar about 10:48 p.m. local time (9:48 EDT)"
"The plane disappeared from radar about 10:18 p.m. (9:18 p.m. EDT/0118 GMT)."
"The plane disappeared from radar at 10:30 p.m."
"Radar shows that just before the crash, the pilot made one last, sharp circular turn."
"Seismic activity ... tremor ... Peggys Cove at 10:31:22 p.m."
"I'm going down" : the guy with a radio scanner
Buoy damage
Intact body
Radar tests
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"SR111's flight path 'eerie'" - says air controller
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Searchers combed shoreline and bush at Indian Harbour
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No fuel discovered in St. Margarets Bay
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Flight 111 crew lost all main instruments
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Mixing types of wire insulation 'potentially fatal'
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Swissair checklist suspect, say experts
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Power failure paralyzed plane
Note: Items marked with ' *** ' are new items, which have just been added to the list.
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