TSB: Flight 111 Crew Had Few Resources To Combat Fire

The inflight fire that led to the Sept. 2, 1998, crash of Swissair Flight 111, and deaths of 229 people on board, likely started with electrical arcing "involving one or more wires," according to the final accident report released last week by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. TSB...

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