Memorial to the plane airliner crash victims of Swiss Air flight 111 of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia Canada
Swissair Flight 111 (SR-111, SWR-111) was a Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on a scheduled airline flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States to Cointrin International Airport in Geneva, Switzerland. This flight was also a codeshare flight with Delta Air Lines. On 2 September 1998 the aircraft used for the flight, registered HB-IWF, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax International Airport at the entrance to St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia. The crash site was 8 kilometres (5 mi) from shore, roughly equidistant between the tiny fishing and tourist communities of Peggys Cove and Bayswater. All 229 people on board died.[1] It was the highest-ever death toll of any aviation accident involving a McDonnell Douglas MD-11. The resulting investigation by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) took over four years and cost CAD 57 million (at that time approximately USD 38 million).[2] The organization concluded that flammable material used in the aircraft's structure allowed a fire to spread beyond the control of the crew, resulting in the loss of control and crash of the aircraft.[3] Swissair Flight 111 was known as the " shuttle" due to its popularity with United Nations officials; the flight often carried business executives, scientists, and researchers. A memorial service was held in Zürich.[34] The following year a memorial service was held in Nova Scotia.[35] Two memorials to those who died on the crash have been established by the Government of Canada. One is to the east of the crash site at The Whalesback, a promontory one kilometre ( mile) north of Peggys Cove. The second memorial is a more private but much larger commemoration located west of the crash site near Bayswater Beach Provincial Park on the Aspotogan Peninsula in Bayswater. Here, the unidentified remains of the victims are interred. A fund was established to fund maintenance of the memorials and the government passed an act to rec
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