| SWISSAIR FACTS AND INFORMATION (1074 words) |
 | When Swiss International Air Lines was created, many pilots from the old Crossair began to protest because Swiss intended to pay them the same wages as before, despite all pilots being united in a single company. |
| On 8th October 1979 on the Athens airport, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 shoots over the runway after a touchdown carried out under "adverse conditions" (the plane was landing too fast and touched down too late); it is known that the pilots did not use the wheel brakes and reverse thrust sufficiently. |
| On 2_September 1998, Swissair_Flight_111, an MD-11 heading to Cointrin in Geneva from JFK crashed at night in the Atlantic Ocean fifty miles southwest of Halifax,_Nova_Scotia. |
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