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    Swissair Flight 306, a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III, named Schaffhausen, was a scheduled international flight from Zürich to Rome, via Geneva. It...
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    Swissair Flight 330 (SR330/SWR330) was a regularly scheduled flight from Zurich Airport in Kloten, Switzerland, to Hong Kong with a planned stopover in...
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    municipality of Andelfingen. 43 residents were killed in the crash of Swissair Flight 306. Humlikon is first mentioned in 1228 as Humlincon. Humlikon has an...
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  • by acquiring smaller airlines, Swissair was suffering from over-expansion by the late 1990s. The crash of Swissair Flight 111 in 1998, which killed all...
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    Czechoslovakia in 1950. On 6 September, TWA Flight 741 from Frankfurt (a Boeing 707) and Swissair Flight 100 from Zürich (a Douglas DC-8) were forced...
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    Safety Board of Canada. Retrieved 13 March 2024. "In-Flight Fire Leading to Collision with Water Swissair Transport Limited McDonnell Douglas MD-11 HB-IWF...
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    Network. 11 May 1964. Retrieved 14 June 2013. "ASN Accident Description (Swissair-306)". Aviation Safety Network. 4 September 1963. Retrieved 28 May 2013....
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    control Air France Flight 4590 - A 2000 Concorde crash caused by an in-flight fire triggered by tire burst on takeoff Swissair Flight 306 - A 1963 crash caused...
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    From 1919, the airport was home to Swissair's predecessor Ad Astra Aero, and from 1932 also to Swissair. The first flight crossing the alps was on 21 July...
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  • board die. September 4 – Swissair Flight 306, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, crashed near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, due to an in-flight fire, killing all 80 on...
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    first officer followed the flight director and raised the nose to 14°, which reduced the airspeed from 165 knots (190 mph; 306 km/h) to the takeoff safety...
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    months before. 4 September 1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashed shortly after take-off from Zürich following an in-flight fire, killing all 80 people on board...
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  • resulting in the lawsuit Cooper v. Aaron the following year. 1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board...
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  • event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was killed in the crash of Swissair Flight 306. He had graduated from the University of Cairo prior to his death...
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  • Italian bus List of highways numbered 306 Swissair Flight 306, a planned flight from Zürich to Rome British Rail Class 306 This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • to not warn the pilots about the flight's dangerously low altitude. Everyone on board were killed. Swissair Flight 306, the Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle...
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    Air Dolomiti flight attendant Scandinavian Airlines flight attendants in the 1960s Southwest Airlines flight attendant Swissair flight attendant, 1953...
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    contracted while caving on the Yorkshire moors All 80 people aboard Swissair Flight 306, a jet airliner on its way to Rome, were killed when the aircraft...
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    A319, to Swissair, occurred on 25 April 1996; it entered service by month's end. In January 1997, an A319 broke a record during a delivery flight by flying...
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  • takeoff from Zurich-Kloten Airport in Kloten near Zürich, Switzerland, Swissair Flight 306, a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III, catches fire, leading to hydraulic...
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  • Flight 730 HB-ICV Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III Swissair Flight 306 HB-IDD Douglas DC-8 Swissair Flight 100 HB-IRW Convair CV-240 1954 Swissair Convair...
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    were the big fire in the village in 1782 and in 1963, the crash of Swissair Flight 306 on the outskirts of Dürrenäsch (killing all 80 on board). In addition...
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    round-the-world flight attempt, but both men died when the aircraft crashed in Alaska on 15 August 1935. Orion 9 14 built, 410 hp (306 kW) Pratt & Whitney...
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    the launch of the 747-300 on June 11, 1980, followed by interest from Swissair a month later and the go-ahead for the project.: 86  The 300 series resulted...
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  • Groupthink (section Swissair)
    Rammal illustrate the detrimental role of groupthink in the collapse of Swissair, a Swiss airline company that was thought to be so financially stable that...
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  • jointly operated flights soon followed with Austrian Airlines, Swissair, and Croatia Airlines. In 1997, THY began to operate flights to Chicago as its...
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    CFRNA  Spain CLASSA LAPE  Switzerland Ad Astra Aero at least one F.VIIB-3m Swissair operated one F.VIIA and eight F.VIIB-3m aircraft.  United States American...
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    Crash", The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, Monday 2 August 1943, Number 306, page 1. Fuell, Tony; Hunter, John (1978). "British Hang Gliding History...
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    airlines including Aer Lingus, Alitalia, Scandinavian Airlines System and Swissair used the airfield for scheduled services across Europe.: 77  In December...
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  • 2 – A major cash-flow crisis prompts Swissair to ground all of its aircraft. October 4 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812, a Tupolev Tu-154, explodes in mid-air...
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