Caught In The Crossfire | The Deadly Bombing Of SwissAir 330

Final Report:https://www.sust.admin.ch/inhalte/AV-... FBI:https://www.governmentattic.org/docs/... This is the story of swiss air flight 330. On the 21st of february 1970 a convair 990 was on the ground at zurich international airport. The Convair 990 is one of those planes that wouldn't be made today, this plane is the antithesis of every modern airliner, planes today optimize for fuel burn more than anything and here we have a plane that drank fuel like crazy just to go a bit faster. This obsession with speed got it the world record for the worlds fastest subsonic passenger jet liner and thats probably a record that probably will stand for a couple more decades. The flight today was to kai tak hong kong with a stop over in tel aviv israel. The plane took off from zurich at 11:23 am with 38 passengers and 9 crew members on board. As the plane started to climb all was well, that is until they hit 14000 feet. The pilots were reporting a problem with the cabin pressurization “Ah, 330 we have trouble with the cabin compression, we have to return to Zurich.” said one of the pilots. Whatever was wrong it was bad the pilots were already asking for a routing back to the airport. Which should be doable considering that they were just over bremen at this point. The pilots were given a heading of 335 and and ILS approach to runway 1. Then air traffic control gets a clearer picture from flight 330 Zurich from Swissair 330, we suspect an explosion in the aft compartment of the aircraft, everything is ok at the moment, but we request descent clearance immediately and firefighting equipment on the ground...for landing. Ill play the audio of the CVR right now, the pilot in command was calm and working the problem. But Air traffic was not able to get all the information they needed so they asked the pilots to repeat themselves. In the tower they could see that flight 330 was bleeding airspeed and the plane was turning more than needed, they were now on a heading of 060, the controllers were trying to get them back on a heading of 330. Then came a transmission from the plane that I don't think any controller is really ready to handle. “We also request the police, err.....to investigate the incident.” their plane was starting to get away from them and they knew it. The fire it looks like was getting worse the the first officer said “"We have fire on board and request an immediate landing." they also confirmed that they were going to try and get the plane down to 6000 feet. As the plane descended through 8000 feet the controllers were trying to hand the plane off of approach control, they said “ "Maintain course 330 °, further instructions from approach control at 118.0." but this was not acknowledged or followed by flight 330. The controllers kept trying to raise flight 330 on the radio and after a couple of tries the pilots replied with “"switch to 118.0 for approach control" . The pilots and the controllers then talked at the same time creating a heterodyne, but a transmission from the piots saying “ we have an electrical problem" was caught on tape. Things on board flight 330 was going from bad to worse. The voices of the pilots now had become strained as well. They were also speaking through their oxygen masks at this point. The controller had cleared the airspace and now had any runway open for flight 330. Eventually the pilots got on the approach frequency. "Loud and clear, we are at 6000 ft and we are... I assume... that we are on course 329°." the plane wasnt they were tracking due west at this point the controllers tried to get them onto the right heading. But it wasnt working, maybe the cockpit was filling with smoke, maybe their heading instrumentation was out so the controllers had to improvise. "According to the radar, deviate from course, turn right until I say stop." no reply. They tried again “"Turn to the right until I say stop, you are completely off course”. The first officer responded and said “"Turn to the right until I say stop, you are completely off course.”, ATC let them know that they were now over the town of baden. The pilots then got back to them and said “we are now turning to