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    Swissair Flight 306, a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III, named Schaffhausen, was a scheduled international flight from Zürich to Rome, via Geneva. It...
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    (336 kW) Pratt & Whitney Wasp SC engine Orion 9B two aircraft supplied to Swissair, 575 hp (429 kW) Wright R-1820-E engine Orion 9C redesignated Altair DL-2A...
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  • Groupthink (section Swissair)
    Rammal illustrate the detrimental role of groupthink in the collapse of Swissair, a Swiss airline company that was thought to be so financially stable that...
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    Brazilian capital, founded only 16 months before. 4 September 1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashed shortly after take-off from Zürich following an in-flight...
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    the launch of the 747-300 on June 11, 1980, followed by interest from Swissair a month later and the go-ahead for the project.: 86  The 300 series resulted...
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    the V2524-A5 started the following month. Delivery of the first A319, to Swissair, occurred on 25 April 1996; it entered service by month's end. In January...
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  • raised the nose to 14°, which reduced the airspeed from 165 knots (190 mph; 306 km/h) to the takeoff safety airspeed (V2) of 153 knots (176 mph; 283 km/h)...
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    Network. 11 May 1964. Retrieved 14 June 2013. "ASN Accident Description (Swissair-306)". Aviation Safety Network. 4 September 1963. Retrieved 28 May 2013....
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    September 1998, his younger son, Joseph LaMotta, died in the crash of Swissair Flight 111. His nephew, John LaMotta, fought in the heavyweight-novice...
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    Airlines flight attendants in the 1960s Southwest Airlines flight attendant Swissair flight attendant, 1953 Wizz Air flight attendant Emirates flight attendant...
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