Did they stop making Swiss air airplanes after the crash?

Answer 1

I tried to explain this but ran out of time. OK. Swissair is an airline- an operating company akin to a bus line or similar. In the United States what are called Antitrust Laws prohibit operating companies- such as airlines, from making their own aircraft. These laws go further in the US insofar as there are normally separate contractors ( manufacturers) for airplane frames ( bodies) and engines, jet or piston. These are called Production diversity or diversity production laws and were introduced during the Roosevelt administration. The only major exception was Curtiss-Wright, who now make engines only ( they produced construction equipment for a while in the fifties- unrelated to aircraft, of course). so what happened, after the big Swissair crash ( a flight lll (one-eleven) well they took a huge loss. eventually Swissair ( air line) went out of business and re-organized under another name. one to watch,. I am sure, pun intended. so that is the story. These ( Diversity production) laws and practices are put mildly, controversial, and they aren"t applied to say, Guns or cameras, where Kodak makes ( or at least used to ) make both cameras and film ( though Kodachrome is no more). or guns and ammo from the same house such as Remington, Winchester-Western, etc.