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Swissair Probe Points to Entertainment Unit (Read 374 times)
Mar 24th, 2003 at 4:32pm

Iroquois   Offline
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The crash of Swissair flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia back in 1998 has been linked to the aircraft's entertainment system

Go to

http://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id=F7D86060-6AEF-4544-8D62-7DC14D6A8869

for the entire story.
 

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Reply #1 - Mar 25th, 2003 at 11:57pm

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I think I remember that incident. The flight entertainment system scared me when I was a kid. To have a screen bigger than my tv at home make me think that it might over work the plane. Plus, Big Brother could be watching.  Tongue
 
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