Cause of Crossair crash still unclear
An interim report into January's Crossair plane crash, in which ten people died, sheds no light on the cause of the accident.
An interim report into January’s Crossair plane crash, in which ten people died, sheds no light on the cause of the accident.
The eight-page report, compiled by federal air crash investigators, gives a detailed description of the events leading up to January’s crash, but offers no explanation as to why the Saab-340 came down just two minutes after taking off from Zurich’s Kloten airport.
According to reports, the investigators are now concentrating their efforts on a detailed analysis of the flight-data and voice recorders. They are yet to determine if the crash was caused by a technical fault or by human error.
The plane’s Moldavian pilot and Slovakian copilot were both killed in the crash, along with a flight attendant and all seven passengers.
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