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HB-IWF, the aircraft involved, seen at Ministro Pistarini International Airport, in November 1992, while wearing its previous livery.

The flight also carried business executives, scientists, and researchers. Swissair Flight 111 was known as the 'UN shuttle' because of its popularity with United Nations officials traveling between the organization's two biggest centers. Several wide-ranging recommendations were made which have been incorporated into new US Federal Aviation Administration standards. The investigation carried out by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) concluded that flammable material used in the aircraft's structure allowed a fire to spread beyond the control of the crew, resulting in the crash of the aircraft. The search and rescue response, crash recovery operation, and investigation by the Government of Canada took more than four years and cost CA$57 million. All 229 passengers and crew on board the MD-11 were killed, making the crash the deadliest McDonnell Douglas MD-11 accident in history. The crash site was 8 kilometers (5 mi 4 nmi) from shore, roughly equidistant from the small fishing and tourist communities of Peggy's Cove and Bayswater.

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On 2 September 1998, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 performing this flight, registration HB-IWF, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax Stanfield International Airport at the entrance to St. This flight was also a codeshare flight with Delta Air Lines.

Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States, to Cointrin Airport in Geneva, Switzerland. Swissair Flight 111 was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F.