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Crossair Flight 3597 was a scheduled flight from
Berlin Tegel Airport, in Germany, to
Zürich Airport, in Switzerland. On 24 November 2001, the
CrossairAvro RJ100 operating the route,
registration HB-IXM, crashed into a wooded range of hills near
Bassersdorf and caught fire, killing 24 of the 33 people on board.
Aircraft
The accident aircraft, a British-made
Avro 146-RJ100, registration HB-IXM, was manufactured in 1996 and logged more than 13,000 hours and 11,500 cycles in total before the crash.
The aircraft was powered by four
Lycoming LF507-1F turbofan engines.