Catastrophic failure saw plane smash into ocean at 345mph – killing all 229 passengers

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plane to terrifyingly plummet before crashing into the ocean at 345mph, killing all on board. On the night of September 2 in 1998, crew were unaware that their was something horribly wrong with Swissair Flight 111 and would end up costing the lives of all 229 passengers people.The flight was travelling from John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City towards Cointrin Airport in Geneva, Switzerland.READ MORE: 'Idiot' Extinction Rebellion protesters savaged over Parliament superglue stuntOnboard the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 craft was 215 passengers and 14 crew members.It departed at 8.18pm, but by 10.10pm, things quickly went wrong.Cabin crew began detecting unusual odours in the cockipit, but there was no smoke.It had been thought, just two minutes later, that it could have been coming from the air conditioning system.A decision was made, as the plane flew over Nova Scotia, to divert to either Bangor, Maine, or Boston, Massachusetts.But just two minutes later, smoke was now billowing into the cockpit of Flight 111, and it was requested that it diverted to Boston.For some reason, the pilots gave the signal “Pan Pan Pan”, which meant that there was an issue but it wasn't an emergency.Oxygen masks were put on to passengers and crew, and a new destination of Halifax – not Boston – was chosen as it was closer.Flight control at the airport told the pilots that they had to dump fuel before landing, but just four minutes later a state of emergency was declared and the plane lost contact with the airport.Shockingly, at 10.31pm, the plane nose dived into a nearby ocean at 345mph, instantly killing all the people on board.Only 78 victims were identified, taking more than a month to do so.It later turned out that two.