Transport Disasters in Switzerland - Aviation Accidents and Incidents in Switzerland, Railway Accidents in Switzerland (Paperback)

Chapters: Aviation Accidents and Incidents in Switzerland, Railway Accidents in Switzerland, Road Accident Deaths in Switzerland, Shipwrecks of Switzerland, Victims of Aviation Accidents or Incidents in Switzerland, Astrid of Sweden, Crossair Flight 498, Melanie Thornton, Hugo Koblet, Munchenstein Rail Disaster, Crossair Flight 3597, Swissair Flight 306, Bevaix Boat, Swissair Flight 330, Mani Matter, Klaus Holighaus, Invicta International Airlines Flight 435, Roger Staub, Alitalia Flight 404, Lausanne Derailment. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alitalia Flight 404, flown by a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 -32 aircraft, crashed near the Zurich-Kloten Airport, Switzerland on November 14, 1990. The airplane with 46 people on board made a controlled flight into the mountain Stadlerberg, 5 miles short of the runway, because of a faulty ILS receiver. All on board died.Today, 404 is the flight number for the Alitalia route Rome -Frankfurt .References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Accident summary Crossair Flight LX 3597 was an Avro RJ100 regional airliner, registration HB-IXM, on a scheduled flight from Berlin, Germany to Zurich, Switzerland that crashed during its approach to land at Zurich International Airport on November 24, 2001. Twenty-four of the thirty-three people on board were killed. The flight departed Berlin-Tegel International Airport at 9:01 PM CET, upon arrival in Zurich about an hour later it was cleared to approach runway 28 in poor visibility conditions due to low clouds. At 10:07 PM CET the plane crashed into a wooded range of hills near the small town of Bassersdorf some 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) short of the runway, where it broke apart and went up in flames. Of the 33 people onboard (28 passengers and 5 crew), 24 die...