(Originally published by the Daily News on Sept. 3, 1998. This was written by Henri E. Cauvin, Bill Hutchinson, Helen Kennedy, Tom Raftery, James Rutenberg and Corky Siemaszko) A Swissair jet that ...

Carrier will exceed the requirements resulting from the 1998 crash off Nova Scotia Swissair is redesigning the cockpit electrical distribution systems in its Boeing ...

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 ...

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 save the 229 people on ...

NARRATOR: Every day more than four million people fly on commercial airlines worldwide—each year, 1.7 billion people on 25 million flights. Flying is the safest means of public transportation.

Airlines and industry regulators should do a better job of training and equipping crews to detect and fight fires aboard planes, investigators of the 1998 Swissair crash near Canada said Monday.

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 investigators ...

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 Content.