- AVIATION SAFETYSwissair Flight 111
- A decade after crash, aviation industry has yet to act on recommendations from major investigation
- CBC INVESTIGATION Safer skies?
- Critics slam changes to Transport Canada's aircraft safety inspection system
IN DEPTH:
Features
- Aviation industry slow to act on Swissair safety issues, investigators say
- Critics slam changes to aircraft safety inspection system
- Database: Browse aviation safety investigations, 1993 to 2006
- Audio: Interviews with people whose lives were touched by the Flight 111 crash
CBC Reports
- The National: Darrow MacIntyre on Swissair investigation's recommendations (video 6:05)
- David McKie on aviation inspections and Canadian whistleblower protection (audio 1:35)
- David McKie: Has Canada's air safety watchdog lost its teeth? (audio 1:47)
- Newsworld: David McKie on aviation regulation concerns (video 2:12)
- World At Six: Air investigators say more safety tests needed on material in airliners (audio 4:46)
- Sandra Bartlett, World Report: Regulators at odds (audio 1:49)
- Sandra Bartlett, World Report: Transport Canada says there's no safety issue (audio 1:43)
- Swissair 111: Peggy Coburn, dealing with her loss (audio 5:45)
Original interview clips
- Bob Conrad, a local fisherman, was one of the first people at the crash site (video 3:52)
- Yves Clement, navy diver who spent three weeks working at the crash site (video 2:50)
- Barbara Fetherolf, lost daughter Tara in the Flight 111 crash (audio 3:34)
- Peggy Coburn, lost her husband in the Flight 111 crash (audio 6:08)
- David Evans, editor of Aviation Safety and Security Digest (audio 2:34)
- Vic Gerden, lead TSB investigator on Swissair Flight 111 case (audio 4:57)
- Nancy Wight, a teacher from New York, lost her daughter in the Flight 111 crash (audio 4:52)
- Merlin Preuss, Transport Canada’s director general of civil aviation (audio 1:13)
- Miles Gerety, a Connecticut lawyer who lost his older brother Pierce in the crash (audio 3:02)
- Ladd Senger, Dallas attorney who specializes in aviation litigation (audio 1:38)
- John Scott, Retired Pilots Association of Canada, on Transport Canada oversight (audio 1:08)
- John Scott, Retired Pilots Association of Canada, on investigator policy (audio 1:37)
- Mike Wing, President of the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees (audio 1:06)
- Doug Peters, FAA inspector and whistleblower (audio 3:28)
- Bobby Boutris, FAA inspector and whistleblower (audio 4:38)
- Peter Julian, NDP MP, on push for stricter language in whistleblower protection bill (audio 0.38)
Swissair Flight 111
- Reconstruction
- Chronology of the last minutes of Flight 111, specs of the plane, links to resources and and more.
- Documentary
- Investigation by CBC's Disclosure into problems with aircraft regulation and inspection (14:23)
- CBC Archives
- Original CBC news coverage of the Swissair Flight 111 crash and investigation
- Your View: Swissair Flight 111 memories
Resources
- Minister of Transport statement on 10th anniversary of Swissair 111 crash (Sept. 2, 2008)
- Barbara Fetherolf 's Swissair Flight 111 discussion forum
- TSB chronology of the Swissair 111 crash and investigation