Swiss Jet Crashes Near Peggys Cove 229 aboard, no survivors
The Halifax Herald Limited
September 3, 1998
Airline officials confirmed this morning there are no survivors from the crash of a Swissair jet that went down off Peggys Cove late Wednesday night with 214 passengers and 15 crew members on board.
Flight SR-111, a triple-engined MD-11 similar to a DC-10, was reported to have tried an emergency landing on the water off Blandford at 10:18 p.m.
"We lost it on radar seven (nautical) miles south of Peggys Cove," an official from the Halifax Search and Rescue Centre said.
Searchers have recovered 36 bodies and early this morning said they had located the tail section of the large jetliner.
Divers were searching in 75-150 feet of water for more wreckage and the jet's flight recorder, or black box.
Four of the bodies had been recovered from the water by 3 a.m. There were no initial signs of survivors.
Swiss Air Flight 111 News Coverage