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Swissair Flight 111

Aviation accident in 1998
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Swissair Flight 111

Summary

Swissair Flight 111 is a flight[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of flight entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,579 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Swissair Flight 111 is in the country of Canada[3].
  • Swissair Flight 111's image is recorded as 28as - Swissair MD-11; HB-IWF@ZRH;14.07.1998 (4713082874).jpg[4].
  • Swissair Flight 111's image is recorded as Swissair 111 debris.jpg[5].
  • Swissair Flight 111's instance of is recorded as flight[6].
  • Swissair Flight 111's instance of is recorded as aviation accident[7].
  • Swissair Flight 111's item operated is recorded as McDonnell Douglas MD-11[8].
  • Swissair Flight 111's operator is recorded as Swissair[9].
  • Swissair Flight 111's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh00006156[10].
  • Swissair Flight 111's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 18040527h[11].
  • Swissair Flight 111's location is recorded as Atlantic Ocean[12].
  • Swissair Flight 111's Commons category is recorded as Swissair Flight 111[13].
  • Swissair Flight 111's aircraft registration is recorded as HB-IWF[14].
  • Swissair Flight 111's point in time is recorded as +1998-09-02T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Swissair Flight 111's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 44.409166666667, 'lon': -63.973611111111}[16].
  • Swissair Flight 111's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01r1mg[17].
  • Swissair Flight 111's significant event is recorded as Swissair flight 111 inquiry[18].
  • Swissair Flight 111's has cause is recorded as conflagration[19].
  • Swissair Flight 111's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+229'}[20].
  • Swissair Flight 111's depicted by is recorded as Fire on Board[21].
  • Swissair Flight 111's depicted by is recorded as Fatal Flaw[22].
  • Swissair Flight 111's start point is recorded as John F. Kennedy International Airport[23].
  • Swissair Flight 111's destination point is recorded as Geneva International Airport[24].
  • Swissair Flight 111's number of survivors is recorded as {'amount': '+0'}[25].
  • Swissair Flight 111's Aviation Safety Network accident ID is recorded as 19980902-0[26].
  • Swissair Flight 111's plaque image is recorded as Swissair memorial - Bayswater1.jpg[27].

Why It Matters

Swissair Flight 111 ranks in the top 4% of flight entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,579 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Canada

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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