NPR's Michele Norris talks with David Evans, editor of Air Safety Week, about methods of investigating airline disasters, and NOVA's documentary Crash of Flight 111, which airs tonight on PBS. The ...

The devastating crash of the Swissair Flight 111 in 1998 will be retold in a feature project that just started shooting, and is produced by Zurich-based C-Films AG and Nova Scotia’s Auguste ...

Find the complete program transcript, including credits for the NOVA program Crash of Flight 111, originally broadcast on PBS on February 17, 2004.

Classroom Activity for the NOVA program Crash of Flight 111: In Piecing It All Together, learn about the techniques and reasoning used to determine the cause of the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia -- An electrical spark in wiring of an in-flight entertainment system likely started the fire that brought down Swissair Flight 111 four years ago, and pilots had no chance to ...

Arcing of wiring in the inflight entertainment network (IFEN) was the most likely cause of an onboard fire that led to the fatal crash of Swissair Flight 111 Sept. 2, 1998, but Canadian ...

The painstaking investigation of the crash of Swissair Flight 111 in 1998 and the deaths of all 229 on board is the topic of a “Nova” special airing at 7 p.m. Tuesday on KOED, channel 11.

Crash of Flight 111 (February 17; 8 to 9 p.m.; Channel 13) concludes from a wealth of evidence gathered over the course of a four-year, $39 million investigation that a chain of accidents caused ...

The inflight fire that led to the Sept. 2, 1998, crash of Swissair Flight 111, and deaths of 229 people on board, likely started with electrical arcing "involving one or more wires," according to ...

Canadian regulators investigating the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 recommended in a preliminary report that pilots who detect smoke or fire should prepare to land immediately, even as they ...

The devastating crash of the Swissair Flight 111 in 1998 will be retold in a feature project that just started shooting, and is produced by Zurich-based C-Films AG and Nova Scotia’s Auguste ...