The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, officially the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board is the agency of the Government of Canada responsible for advancing transporta
Place du Centre, the headquarters of the TSB
Transportation Safety Board of Canada office in Richmond Hill, Ontario
Swissair Flight 111
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Swissair Flight 111 was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States, to Cointrin Airport in Geneva, Switzerland. The flight wa
Transportation Safety Board of Canada
…written to establish an independent relationship between the agency and the Government of Canada. This agency's first major test came with the crash of Swissair Flight 111 on September 2, 1998, the largest single aviation accident on Canadian territory since the 1985 crash of Arrow Air Flight 1285R. The TSB delivered its…
Cargo door and other recovered debris
HB-IWF, the aircraft involved in the accident, seen in July 1998
Swissair Flight 111 crashed 8 km (5 mi) off the coast of Peggys Cove. Pictured is the community's iconic Peggys Point Lighthouse in 2005, with St. Margarets Bay seen below the lighthouse on the right.
CCGS Hudson searches for Swissair Flight 111 debris on 14 September, with HMCS Anticosti (centre), USS Grapple (right), and a Halifax-class frigate (rear).