Editing Swissair (section)

== Accidents and incidents ==
Over the 71-year history of Swissair, there were eleven major incidents reported resulting in 414 fatalities.<ref>{{cite web | author=Harro Ranter | title=ASN Aviation Safety Database | url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?sorteer=datekey_desc&kind=%&cat=%&page=1&field=Operatorkey&var=5224 | publisher=The Aviation Safety Network | date=31 August 2008 | access-date=2008-09-02}}</ref>

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!Flight<br />number
!Date
!Registration number
!Model
!Fatalities
!Details
|-
|N/A
|[[1934 Swissair Tuttlingen accident|27 July 1934]]
|CH-170
|[[Curtiss T-32 Condor II|Curtiss AT-32C Condor II]]
|12
|Crashed due to wing failure in severe turbulence. Oscillations in the wing caused a stress fracture, made worse by the storm the aircraft was flying through. However, German investigators determined that two fractures formed: one in the wing and engine mount due to defective construction and improper welding, and the second resulted from turbulence in the storm.
|-
|N/A
|7 January 1939
|HB-ITA
|[[Douglas DC-2]] 
|5
|Crashed after striking a hill.
|-
|N/A
|20 July 1939
|HB-IXA
|[[Junkers Ju 86]] 
|6
|Crashed following an engine fire.
|-
|N/A
|[[1954 Swissair Convair CV-240 crash|19 June 1954]]
|HB-IRW
|[[Convair 240|Convair CV-240]] 
|3
|Crashed due to [[fuel starvation]] in the [[English Channel]], near [[Folkestone]]. All three crew members survived, but three of the five passengers drowned as they were unable to swim. Passenger aircraft at this time were not obliged to carry [[life raft]]s or [[Personal flotation device|life jackets]], and this was one of the many incidents which led to such a requirement becoming law.
|-
|N/A
|15 July 1956
|HB-IMD
|[[Convair 240|Convair CV-440]]
|4
|The aircraft crashed during a delivery flight from [[San Diego International Airport|San Diego, California]] to [[Zürich]] via [[New York City]], [[Gander International Airport|Gander]] and [[Shannon Airport|Shannon]]. On approach to Shannon, the pilots executed an abnormally steep turn, causing the aircraft to [[Stall (flight)|stall]] and drop to the ground.
|-
|N/A
|18 June 1957
|HB-IRK
|[[Douglas DC-3]]
|9
|Crashed during an exercise conducted under [[visual flight rules]]. The exercise aimed to practice flying with one engine switched off and propellers [[Propeller (aeronautics)#Feathering|feathered]].
|-
|[[Swissair Flight 306|306]]
|4 September 1963
|HB-ICV
|[[Sud Aviation Caravelle|Caravelle]]
|80
|The pilot taxied along the [[runway]] at a high engine setting to clear the fog. This caused the brakes to overheat, which then started a fire that damaged hydraulic lines and led to a loss of control. The accident had a significant impact on the small town of [[Humlikon]]: 43 of the just 200 residents died on that flight.
|-
|N/A
|10 February 1967
|HB-IMF
|Convair CV-440
|4
|Collided with a cloud-covered mountain during a training flight.
|-
|[[Swissair Flight 330|330]]
|21 February 1970
|HB-ICD
|[[Convair 990|Convair CV-990]] 
|47
|A bomb on board the flight from Zürich to [[Tel Aviv]], detonated in the aft cargo compartment of the aircraft about nine minutes after take-off climb-out. The aircraft crashed due to a subsequent electrical fire that crippled the aircraft before the pilots could attempt an emergency landing at Zürich.
|-
||[[Dawson's Field hijackings|100]]
|6 September 1970
|HB-IDD
|[[Douglas DC-8]]
|0
|Swissair Flight 100, from Zürich to New York, was [[Aircraft hijacking|hijacked]] by a man and a woman and diverted to [[Dawson's Field hijackings|Dawson's Field]] in [[Jordan]]. The 145 passengers, along with 260 others from two other hijacked aircraft, were held hostage by the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine|PFLP]]. The three empty aircraft were subsequently blown up on September 12.
|-
| [[Swissair Flight 316|316]]
|8 October 1979
|HB-IDE
|Douglas DC-8
|14
|Landed under "adverse conditions" at [[Ellinikon International Airport|Athens Ellinikon International Airport]], overshooting the runway and killing fourteen passengers. The plane touched down at too great a speed and too far along the runway for the pilots to use sufficient braking and [[reverse thrust]].
|-
|[[Swissair Flight 111|111]]
|2 September 1998
|HB-IWF
|[[McDonnell Douglas MD-11]]
|229
|Flying from New York's [[JFK International Airport]] to [[Geneva Cointrin International Airport|Geneva]], the [[MD-11]] crashed in the Atlantic due to an onboard cockpit fire caused by [[arcing]] and subsequent instrument failure at night off the coast of [[Peggy's Cove]], 30&nbsp; km southwest of [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]]. This became the second-deadliest [[Aviation accidents and incidents|aviation accident]] in Canadian history, just after [[Arrow Air Flight 1285R]].
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