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Sept. 2, 2013 marks 15 years since Swissair Flight 111 crashed into the Atlantic, killing all 229 on board

It's been 15 years since Swissair Flight 111 crashed into the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people on board.

At 10:31 p.m. on Sept. 2, 1998, Nova Scotians near the coast felt their homes tremble as the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 passenger plane bound for Geneva, Switzerland smashed into the water a few kilometres off the shore of Peggys Cove.

The flight took off from JFK airport and then began to fly over the Atlantic Ocean, but a little less than an hour into the flight the crew noticed smoke and issued the international urgency signal "pan pan pan."

They were cleared to proceed to the airport in Halifax but crashed in the relatively shallow water off Peggys Cove.

Nancy Hausman travels all the way from Illinois every year. She comes to pay her respects to her son Thomas, who was just 33 years old when he died.

His remains, along with those of many others who were aboard Swissair 111, are buried at a monument near Peggys Cove.
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Lost cargo from the flight included currency, diamonds, jewelry and Pablo Picasso's The Painter. At the time, the painting's value was estimated at $1.5 million.

австралия, голландия и тд истерят и требуют вводить свой спецназ - им позарез нужно изъять с донской земли каждый разметаный кусочек разбившихся граждан. так делают не всегда и не везде. стоит задуматься.

а вот с фактами вокруг швейцарско-канадской катрастрофы по прошествии добрых 10 лет возникли большие сложности:

1) May 2007:
The Swissair Flight 111 air traffic control tapes are released to The Canadian Press after a court battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

2) Swissair crash may not have been an accident

An investigator looking into the crash of Swissair Flight 111 near Peggys Cove, N.S., says he was prevented by senior RCMP and aviation safety officials from pursuing his theory that an incendiary device might have been the cause of the fatal fire on board.
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The plane carried a Saudi prince, a relative of the former shah of Iran and high-profile UN officials. Diamonds and gems that would be worth half a billion dollars today were also never found.