HB-IWF — accident record & aircraft history

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Safety history

September 2, 1998AccidentHull loss
Département fédéral des transports, des communications et de l'énergie N° 1762 Rapport Final du Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada concernant l’accident de l'avion McDonnell Douglas MD-11, HB-IWF (SR 111) du 2 septembre 1998 près de Peggy’s Cove, Nouvelle-Ecosse (Canada) Le Bureau de la sécurité des transports (BST) du Canada a enquêté sur cet…
MCDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION MD-11 · 229 fatalities
Findings as to Causes and Contributing Factors 1. Aircraft certification standards for material flammability were inadequate in that they allowed the use of materials that could be ignited and sustain or propagate fire. Full accident record

Transportation Safety Board of Canada records1 on file

Worst recorded outcome: destroyed (September 2, 1998).

September 2, 1998Accidentdestroyed
Mcdonnell Douglas MD-11 · Peggy's Cove, 5 NM SW · 229 fatalities · A98H0003
A98H0003: At 0018 UTC, a Swissair MD-11 (SR 111) departed New York, USA, for Geneva, Switzerland, with 215 passengers and 14 crew members on board. About 53 minutes after departure, the pilots detected an odour in the cockpit. Within about three minutes they assessed there was smoke in the cockpit and made a "panpan"…

Source: TSB Aviation Safety Information System (ASIS) (open data).