Crossair Flight 3597 /

Crossair Flight LX 3597 was an Avro RJ100 regional airliner, registration HB-IXM, on a scheduled flight from Berlin, Germany to Zurich, Switzerland that crashed during its approach to land at Zurich Airport on 24 November 2001. Twenty-four of the thirty-three people on board were killed. The flight departed Berlin Tegel Airport at 21:01 CET, upon arrival in Zurich about an hour later it was cleared to approach runway 28 in poor visibility conditions due to low clouds. At 22:07 CET the plane crashed into a wooded range of hills near the small town of Bassersdorf some 4 km (2.5 miles) short of the runway, where it broke apart and went up in flames. Of the 33 people on board (28 passengers and 5 crew), 24 died (among them the cockpit crew), and nine (seven passengers and two flight attendants) survived. The lead singer of the Eurodance group La Bouche, Melanie Thornton, was one of the dead. The German pop group Passion Fruit was also aboard; two of the singers died, the third singer and manager of the band survived with injuries. The investigation concluded that the accident was a controlled flight into terrain caused by Captain Hans Ulrich Lutz deliberately descending below the