Crossair Avro RJ100 crash kills 24

Switzerland’s Crossair suffered its second fatal accident in less than two years on November 24, when one of the regional airline’s Avro RJ100s crashed into a wooded area on approach to Zurich Airport, killing 24 of the 33 on board. Flight LX3597, en route from Berlin, went down during a snow shower shortly after 10 p.m., some two miles short of Zurich’s 8,200-ft Runway 28. The Crossair pilot reportedly could not use either of the airport’s ILS approaches due to a recently enacted ban on flights below 10,000 ft in German airspace into Zurich from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.