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SR111

December 17, 2019

An MD-11 crashes into the ocean near the Canadian shore. Find out how some wiring and unfortunate procedures caused an in flight fire that incapacitated the plane while trying to perform an emergency landing in Canada.

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In Mechanical Failures Tags SR111, Swissair, DC-8, Canada, Water disasters, In-flight fire
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