The
following words are from German news articles and websites that comment on the
tragic death of Melanie Thornton.
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Pop
star Thornton among the victims of the aircraft crash 25,11,2001 19:45
Zurich
(dpa) - the crash of a passenger plane in the proximity of the airport Zurich
Kloten tore 24 people into death, also among them the Pop singer Melanie Thornton
on Saturday evening. The police confirmed it on Sunday, after further bodies had
been saved. Nine people survived the misfortune, of it two crew members. The
crash occurred with snow rains and could be to due to view lacking. The
airplane was started in Berlin Tegel, 13 of 33 people on board came according
to the passenger list from Germany. Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (SPD)
expressed the victims his sympathy.
Beside
Melanie Thornton was also the German/Netherlands Pop Trio "Passion
Fruit" on board. Two of the singers are dead, only Debby Marteen survived,
announced the private station RTL. The group ("The Rigga-Ding-Dong
Song") had arisen just like the Thornton living in the USA ("Love How
You Love Me") on Saturday in the context of the "Coca Cola
Weihnachtstour 2001" in Leipzig. In the coming weeks further Live Shows
and television appearances were planned.
Some
the victims burned in the airplane of the type, broken apart,
"Jumbolino". Others had been ejected and under wreck parts were
buried. The crash area, in which pieces of rubble, bodies and body parts lay,
had the size of a football field. It lay approximately two kilometers before
the landing runway.
The
cause of the misfortune remained first unclear. According to data of the
authorities it is however already certain that the machine got easily off the
intended air lane and flew too low. Possibly it touched the treetops. In the
crash place it should actually still another height of over 300 meters. Experts
mutmassten that local snow showers provided for poor view visibility. The
flight captain was considered however as very experienced.
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The
singer Melanie Thornton ("Heartbeat") arises in the afternoon 28 of
August 2001 in the context of the "Pop open air" on the international
radio exhibition (IFA) in Berlin. The US Popstar was on board the passenger
plane fallen in Zurich.
Tom
Maelsa (central picture)
The
machine with the flight number LX 3597 was started against 21.00 o'clock in
Berlin and should be one hour later about in Zurich. Up to the abort of the
connection with radio traffic to the machine completely was normal, it was
said. Data loggers and the Flight Recorder were found and are evaluated.
From
the 33 airplane passengers came 13 from Germany, ever one from Austria, Canada,
Ghana, Sweden and Spain, two from the Netherlands, ten from Switzerland as well
as three from Israel, among them according to CROSS air of the vice-mayors from
Jerusalem. In the cockpit of the misfortune machine two Swiss pilots with large
experience sat. For both the flight had been Zurich Berlin and back the only
employment on Saturday.
The
misfortunate machine should have landed on an approach route, which is only
used regularly in each case because of a new convention between Switzerland and
Germany for few weeks between 22.00 and 6.00 o'clock. Thus aircraft noise is to
be reduced by the airport Zurich over the German border region. The approach on
this runway is approach of non-precision so mentioned. The indicator in the cockpit
indicates only lateral deviations, the pilots must the height hold. This runway
28 as west route is provisionally closed now according to data of the airport
Zurich. It does not have a complete instrument landing system.
The
second crash of a CROSS air machine within two years meets the airline in the
sensitive structure to the national airline, which is promoted with billions at
tax funds. To fear are now again sinking passenger numbers, it were said. It
was according to CROSS air data the first crash of a machine of the type
"Jumbolino". The had an accident Avro RJ 100-Regional Flight has 97
seats and comes from the year 1996. The machine had completed 13,000 flying
hours. The type of aircraft is considered as reliable and also in difficult situations
as well controllable.
(InterNet:
Homepage CROSS air with current information: http://www.crossair.com)
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Media
release November 25, 2001
Crossair
aircraft crashes near Zurich
Latest
update, Sunday, November 25, 12:30
A
Crossair Avro RJ100 Jumbolino crashed on approach to Zurich Airport yesterday,
Saturday, November 24, shortly after 22:00 local time (21:00 UTC). The aircraft
was operating flight LX 3597, which had taken off from Berlin (Tegel) at 21:01
local time, and had been due to land in Zurich at 22:15 local time. The
aircraft crashed in a wooded area near Nürensdorf/Birchwil, near the town of
Bassersdorf. There were 33 persons on board, 28 passengers and five crew. The
crew were all Swiss nationals, and the captain had many years of experience as
a Crossair pilot. The crew had only worked a single rotation on the day, from
Zurich to Berlin and back.
According
to information from the Zurich Cantonal Police, ten of the occupants died in
the crash and a further nine were injured. The fate of the remaining 14
occupants remains unclear. The Cantonal Police have completed their
search-and-rescue operation, and the site is now being examined by the
investigating authorities. The passengers on board were from Israel, Canada,
the Netherlands, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
The
Avro RJ100 Jumbolino involved was owned by Crossair and had accumulated 13 193
flight hours by November 24. It was manufactured in 1996, and had had its
latest technical inspection on November 16, 2001.
"We
are shocked and deeply saddened to suffer another accident," said André
Dosé, CEO of Crossair. The company extends its deepest condolences to the
families of those involved. This is the second accident the company has
suffered in its 25-year history.
Any
customers who wish to cancel their flight bookings in view of these events will
be able to do so free of charge.
Hotlines
have been established for the families of those on board:
in
Zurich: 0800 707 507
in
Basel +41 61 325 7120
from
outside Switzerland: +41 1 543 6767.
Crossair
Corporate Communications
P.O.
Box, CH-4002 Basel
Phone
+41 61 325 4550
Fax
+41 61 325 3554
E-mail:
communications@crossair.ch
25.11.2001 Bild.de News
Aircraft crash in Zurich: 24 victims, a cause
unclearly
Popstar
Melanie Thornton flew from the concert to death
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The airplane drama in Zurich.
Hope
for still more survivor - is gone. The aids stopped their work today on the
late afternoon. All passengers are identified. Balance: 24 dead ones, nine
hurt, of it two heavily.
Popstar
Melanie Thornton (34)
Under
the victims: Pop singer Melanie Thornton (34, largest hit: "I love how you
love me").
The
American celebrated successes also with the group La Bouche ("Sweet
Dreams"). Melanie Thornton had briefly before the misfortune had an
appearance with the Coca Cola Christmas Tour in Leipzig. On Monday the new
edition of its debut album "ready to should come fly" to fly (ready)
into the disk shops...
The
crash cause - still unclear. The airplane of the type "Jumbolino",
flight number LX 3597, was started on Saturday at 21 o'clock in Berlin Tegel.
It fell, broke scarcely two miles before the runway Zurich Kloten into a small
forest and caught fire.
It
is certain already now that the machine flew too deeply. Possibly it touched
the treetops with a wing. In the crash place it should still another height of
300 meters. At the crash time after 22 o'clock prevailed to snow rains with
according to poor visibility briefly.
The
instrumentenanflug took place on a route, which is only since short in
enterprise. As CROSS air communicated, the airplane had not been on accurate
course. The pilot is considered, however, as very experienced.
According
to data of the airline the four-engined machine of the type Rj-100 broke in the
case of the impact into two parts. Cockpit and tail of the wreck remained to
some extent intact. The center section, however, was totally destroyed. It is
world-wide the first accident with an airplane of this type. A terrorist attack
is excluded.
On
board 28 passengers from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Canada, Switzerland
and Israel were - under it also the deputy mayor von Jerusalem. In addition:
Five crew members.
The
flight recorder from the cockpit and flight writer were meanwhile found. They
are brought to Paris and evaluated there. On first results the authorities do
not count before Monday.
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24
People Died
CROSS
air crash tears Pop star Melanie Thornton into death
Hamburg
- Pop star Melanie Thornton lived its dream - nevertheless only for short time.
The life of the 34-year old on Saturday evening a tragic end took two days
before the publication of the new edition of its first solo album "Ready
to Fly" in Germany.
With
the crash of a passenger plane of Swiss airline Crossair she died together with
23 other airplane passengers - she did not belong to the nine lucky ones, which
survived the disaster.
The
former singer of the successful 90's pop band La Bouche had made herself and
looked straight solo ones a name with large expectations into the future, when
everything was suddenly destroyed. Their fate reminds of the tragic death of
the US Soul star Aaliyah, which left its life few weeks ago with an airplane
misfortune. At the end of August the 22-jaehrige singer and actress with a Cessna over the Bahamas had fallen.
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Popstar
Melanie Thornton is under the 24 dead ones of the CROSS air crash in
Switzerland.
Melanie
Thornton had already discovered her love for the music as a small girl in the
US Federal State South Carolina. Whether in the Church choir or in numerous
school musical: "a melody always went to me through the head. I wanted
always to music and everything had with music to do ", she said recently
in an interview.
But
for their career as a Pop star it had to only pull to its sister to Germany,
where successful producer Frank Farian became attentive to her. They formed in
the middle of the 90's the Dance formation La Bouche. Together with Lane
McCray, Thornton hits had like "Sweet Dreams" and "Be My
Love" and sold world-wide more than ten million copies.
In
the past year it then successfully started its solo career. Her single
"Love How You Love Me" was promoted to the ear worm; their debut
album created it at first attempt into the Top 20 the Charts.
On
Saturday the black singer with the remarkably blond hair had arisen still in
Leipzig. In the context of the "Coca Cola Christmas Tour 2001" it
presented the Werbesong "Wonderful Dream (The Holidays Are Coming)",
which comes just like the new edition of its debut of album on this Monday into
the German disk shops. When it rose on Saturday evening in Berlin into the
flier, it had still numerous Live Shows as well as television appearances
before itself.
Nearly
like a vorahnung now her words of Saturday sound, when them said RTL in an
interview of the private station: "We do not know all whether we still
experience tomorrow. Thus we should now live our dream ". This dream ended
on Saturday evening briefly after 22.00 o'clock abruptly with the crash of
flight LX 3597.
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American-Born
Singer Melanie Thornton Dies in Crash
November
25, 2001 11:28 AM ET
ZURICH
(Reuters) - U.S.-born pop singer Melanie Thornton, on tour to publicize her
solo album "Ready to Fly," died on Saturday night in a Swiss plane
crash near Zurich, police said Sunday.
"It
is true that Miss Thornton was on the passenger list. She is not among the
survivors," Zurich police spokesman Karl Steiner told Reuters.
Nine
people survived out of the 33 aboard the Crossair jet and police said 24 were
presumed dead.
Melanie's
latest single, "Wonderful Dream," is the song of a new Coca-Cola
commercial and was due to be in stores starting Monday.
Thornton,
born in May 1967 in South Carolina, was for many years the voice of the group
La Bouche with whom she had worldwide sales successes with songs such as
"Sweet Dreams," "Fallin' In Love" and "Be My
Lover."
But
their second album flopped and Thornton left the group in February 2000 for an
independent career.
Although
born in the United States, her singing career started in Germany under the
auspices of Franc Farian, who has launched many pop bands. She had arrived with
just $15 in her pockets to join her sister in Germany in 1992.
With
her singing partner Lane McCray, she celebrated world-wide successes with La
Bouche and they sold more than 10 million units and obtained gold and platinum
awards in over 15 countries.
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With
the crash of the CROSS air machine LX 3597 Melanie Thornton died on Saturday
evening in the proximity of Zurich. The
airplane coming from Berlin/Tegel fell briefly after 22.00 o'clock in the
approach flight into a small forest.
Some passengers could save themselves from the burning airplane, to the
majority of the passengers remained this chance refused, among them
Melanie. The artist was on graduation
route for its new single "Wonderful Dream" and was on the way to an
Live appearance in Zurich.
With
their Hymne "Love How You Love ME" celebrated Melanie Thornton at the
beginning of the yearly European-wide sensational successes. "Wonderful Dream" should become
new high point of their solo career.
"Melanies death is for us
everything a shock. We lost more than
only a great artist. The many years of
co-operation made it a genuine friend.
We will always think our large respect with much love of it and also its
artistic achievements will have always.
We will miss it much. Our
prayers & our thoughts are with Melanies family & friends."
~George
luck, acting partner of their disk company x-cell records