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Final report into Swissair crash won't be completed this year
HALIFAX (CP) - The third anniversary of the crash of Swissair Flight 111 will come and go without a final report into what downed the passenger jet. Jim Harris, spokesman for Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said this week a final report into the Sept. 2, 1998, disaster off Nova Scotia won't be coming this year. (Halifax Chronicle-Herald)
"There's not going to be a report this year for sure. . . . There's so much work, just an awful lot of work to be done," he said of the $50-million probe.
"It's a very complicated report and it's a very complicated investigation, complicated airplane, mix them all together and it just takes time."
The Boeing MD-11 plunged into St. Margarets Bay after the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and a complete electrical failure followed. All 229 passengers and crew were killed.
Board groups probing specific areas like fire and systems, operations and human factors have either completed or continue to write their own draft reports on the crash. Those 11 reports are then reviewed by senior investigators, who are working on a draft of the final document.
Board officials have long said the final report may not pinpoint the exact cause of the crash, which splintered the aircraft into about two million pieces.
Wiring has long been suspected of starting the fire. But investigators still haven't determined if burnt wires found in the wreckage, which show signs of a phenomenon called electrical arcing, started the fire or were scorched by fire from another source.
Testing on both the aircraft's general-purpose Kapton wiring, and wires connecting a controversial inflight entertainment system (later banned by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration), continues at government metallurgy labs in Ottawa and elsewhere.
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