SwissAir Flight 111 Fire

Send us Fan Mail A modern airliner. A premium cabin upgrade. A faint smell that doesn’t seem urgent until it’s far too late. We’re diving into Swissair Flight 111, the 1998 MD-11 crash off Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia, and the chain of hidden risks that turned a routine transatlantic flight into one of the most defining aviation safety case studies of the last 25 years. We walk through Swissair’s rise from a fiercely private, precision-focused carrier to the “Flying Bank,” then into the financi...