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Communiqués - 1998

1998-12-21

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The multi-faceted, complex, international investigation into the crash of Swissair Flight 111 continues...

1998-12-10

Transportation Safety Board of Canada Investigators Started to Examine the Air Satellite Aircraft

1998-12-07

Transportation Safety Board of Canada has Sent Investigators to the Site of an Aircraft Accident near Baie-Comeau

1998-11-20

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigation into the accident involving Swissair Flight 111 MD-11 is continuing...

1998-11-18

TSB Investigation Continues into the Accident 16 January 1998 Involving the "FLARE"

1998-11-17

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
Dragging operations, delayed because of the weather...

1998-11-11

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The latest dragging operation, which started Friday morning, has been suspended...

1998-11-08

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The Canadian Coast Guard vessel "EARL GREY" has completed the latest series of ROV inspections of the debris field...

1998-11-04

Transportation Safety Board of Canada Fact Sheet on Nose Section Reconstruction Jig for Swissair Flight 111, MD-11.

1998-11-02

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
There is now close to 200,000 lbs of wreckage recovered...

1998-10-29

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada technical examination of recovered materials from Swissair Flight 111...

1998-10-28

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The scallop dragger made 18 passes today and recovered useful quantities of material...

1998-10-27

Speaking Notes for the TSB Chairman TSB News Conference CFB Shearwater 1:30PM, 27 October 1998

1998-10-27

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
Today's dragging operation took place on the edge of the debris field...

1998-10-26

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The scallop dragger "ANNE S. PIERCE" will start tomorrow morning...

1998-10-26

TSB Issues Interim Recommendations for Propair Accident at Mirabel International Airport, 18 June 1998

1998-10-24

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The "SEA SORCERESS" heavy-lift operation ended today at 1430...

1998-10-23

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The "EARL GREY" came in today with loose material, 9 nets, and 5 containers...

1998-10-22

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The heavy-lift operation on the "SEA SORCERESS" is nearing its conclusion and the recovery operation will be switching to a dragger operation...

1998-10-21

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
Estimate that about 27 % of the aircraft, by weight, has been recovered to date. There were no non-volatile memory chips found in any of the circuit boards examined today...

1998-10-21

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The deep-sea heavy-lift operation to retrieve the remaining material from Swissair Flight 111 is continuing...

1998-10-02

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
Heavy-Lift Equipment to Join Swissair Flight 111 Recovery Effort

1998-10-01

Aviation Occurrence - Risk of Collision Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport 12 March 1997
Report Number A97H0002 HTML

1998-09-17

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada today provided details on the challenging state of the primary wreckage site...

1998-09-15

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
TSB investigation team in Halifax has determined that both the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and the flight data recorder (FDR) from Swissair Flight 111 stopped at about the same time...

1998-09-11

Swissair Flight 111 Accident Investigation Update:
Cockpit Voice Recorder of Swissair Flight 111 Retrieved

1998-09-03

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada Is Sending a Team of Investigators to the Site of the Accident South of Halifax, Nova Scotia Involving a Swissair MD-11 Flying from New York to Geneva on the Night of 02 September 1998

1998-09-02

Statement by the Chairman of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada Concerning the Investigation into the Accident South of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Involving a Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on the Night of 02 September 1998

1998-09-01

Fatal Derailment of VIA Rail Passenger Train No. 2 at Mile 7.5 of the CN Wainwright Subdivision Near Biggar, Saskatchewan, 03 September 1997
Report Number R97H0009 HTML

1998-08-05

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has Sent a Team of Investigators to the Site of the Fatal Floatplane Accident, 04 August 1998 Near Kincolith, British Columbia

1998-08-03

Collision with Terrain Cessna 180K C-GIGK Aux Mélèzes River, Quebec 10 August 1997
Report Number A97Q0168 HTML

1998-07-14

Backgrounder - The "FLARE" left Rotterdam on 30 December 1997 - Report Number M98N0001

1998-05-20

TSB Investigation into Fredericton Accident Leads to Safety Measures

1998-04-02

TSB Investigation Continues into the Accident the Sinking of the "PACIFIC CHARMER" in Pylades Channel, B.C. on 02 December 1997
Report Number M97W0236 HTML

1998-03-09

Cooperation between two Safety Boards Results in Safety Recommendations on General Electric CF6-80 Engines

1998-02-11

TSB Investigation Continues into the Accident 16 December 1997 at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Involving Air Canada Flight 646

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