Flight 111: The Tragedy Of The Swissair Crash

"Swissair 1-1-1 is declaring Pan Pan Pan. We have smoke in the cockpit." Seventeen minutes after the co-pilots distress call the Geneva-bound jet crashed into the Atlantic off Peggys Cove Nova Scotia just over an hour after leaving New York on September 2 1998 killing all 229 people on board. Now a year later acclaimed journalist Stephen Kimber tells the moving story of the crash and its far-reaching human consequences. Kimber introduces us to a wide variety of people: from the victims and their families to the recovery teams pathologists and investigators who are still searching for answers. As with any disaster the effects are unpredictable and heartwrenching. In a fast-paced and compelling style Flight 111 traces the interconnected paths of the people whose fates were forever altered by what happened that night.