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The Swissair Flight 111 Crash Thomas Juby (Swissair crash chief investigator)
Abstract:
The day after Swissair 111 crashed on the 2nd of September 1998, Tom Juby opened the morgue at the Shearwater Airbase and worked there for two months. He was in charge of fingerprint retrieval and comparisons, logistics of Identification supplies, and quality control to maintain international standards for disasters. On the 1st of November 1998, he was seconded to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada to work in the reconstruction hanger for the next 3.5 years. He suppled technical assistance regarding exhibits and physical evidence along with photographing aircraft debris, and attended three times in Zurich to photograph functioning MD-11 aircraft. He estimates that he took nearly two hundred thousand photos of the several million debris pieces, along with several hundred hours of video. In addition, he attended every major test undertaken by the TSB at Boeing, Seattle, CANMET of Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa, and the FAA Burn Unit in Atlantic City, New Jersey to determine the cause of the fire. His story of Swissair 111 was covered by the CBC’s ‘The Fifth Estate’ in September of 2011, having been interviewed by Linden MacIntyre. He has written a book called ‘Twice As Far’, available on Amazon Books, that tells the inside story of the investigation, including what the TSB and the RCMP failed to divulge to the Canadian and World public.
Every week, we invite ALL members and members of our local community to join us for a free, casual ALLways Learning Series (formerly Lunchtime Learning Series). We cover topics both big and small in scope, from local to international, and from arts to sciences. We aim to offer lively talks, from engaging speakers, that anyone in the audience can enjoy. No registration is required.
[email protected]
(902) 679 8604
The Swissair Flight 111 Crash Thomas Juby (Swissair crash chief investigator)
Abstract:
The day after Swissair 111 crashed on the 2nd of September 1998, Tom Juby opened the morgue at the Shearwater Airbase and worked there for two months. He was in charge of fingerprint retrieval and comparisons, logistics of Identification supplies, and quality control to maintain international standards for disasters. On the 1st of November 1998, he was seconded to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada to work in the reconstruction hanger for the next 3.5 years. He suppled technical assistance regarding exhibits and physical evidence along with photographing aircraft debris, and attended three times in Zurich to photograph functioning MD-11 aircraft. He estimates that he took nearly two hundred thousand photos of the several million debris pieces, along with several hundred hours of video. In addition, he attended every major test undertaken by the TSB at Boeing, Seattle, CANMET of Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa, and the FAA Burn Unit in Atlantic City, New Jersey to determine the cause of the fire. His story of Swissair 111 was covered by the CBC’s ‘The Fifth Estate’ in September of 2011, having been interviewed by Linden MacIntyre. He has written a book called ‘Twice As Far’, available on Amazon Books, that tells the inside story of the investigation, including what the TSB and the RCMP failed to divulge to the Canadian and World public.
Every week, we invite ALL members and members of our local community to join us for a free, casual ALLways Learning Series (formerly Lunchtime Learning Series). We cover topics both big and small in scope, from local to international, and from arts to sciences. We aim to offer lively talks, from engaging speakers, that anyone in the audience can enjoy. No registration is required.
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