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.

High over the Atlantic, smoke begins to fill the cockpit of a Swissair MD-11. Within minutes, the crew battles an escalating ...

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.

The Canadian Transportation Safety Board's (TSB's) final report on the September 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 stopped short of faulting wiring from the plane's aftermarket in-flight entertainment ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...