Swiss Air Flight 111 Memorial
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Swiss Air Flight 111 Memorial

Birth
Peggys Cove, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death
2 Sep 1998
Peggys Cove, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Monument
Peggys Cove, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada GPS-Latitude: 44.50648, Longitude: -63.93322
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Swissair Flight 111 (SR-111, SWR-111) was a Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on a scheduled airline flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States to Cointrin International Airport in Geneva, Switzerland. This flight was also a codeshare flight with Delta Air Lines. On September 2, 1998, the aircraft used for the flight, registered HB-IWF, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax International Airport at the entrance to St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia. The crash site was 8 km from shore, roughly equidistant between the tiny fishing and tourist communities of Peggys Cove and Bayswater. All 229 people on board were killed.
Actual Burial site for unidentifiable remains are at the Swissair Crash Victims Mass Burial Site with 227 added to it.Go to this Memorial # to find it.#35753808
Swissair Flight 111 (SR-111, SWR-111) was a Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on a scheduled airline flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States to Cointrin International Airport in Geneva, Switzerland. This flight was also a codeshare flight with Delta Air Lines. On September 2, 1998, the aircraft used for the flight, registered HB-IWF, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax International Airport at the entrance to St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia. The crash site was 8 km from shore, roughly equidistant between the tiny fishing and tourist communities of Peggys Cove and Bayswater. All 229 people on board were killed.
Actual Burial site for unidentifiable remains are at the Swissair Crash Victims Mass Burial Site with 227 added to it.Go to this Memorial # to find it.#35753808