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'Crash of Flight 111' Details Swissair Tragedy

NPR | By Michele Norris

Published February 17, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

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NPR's Michele Norris talks with David Evans, editor of Air Safety Week, about methods of investigating airline disasters, and NOVA's documentary Crash of Flight 111, which airs tonight on PBS. The program describes the events -- and investigation into -- the crash of an airliner off Nova Scotia that killed 229 people in 1998.