Grounding (2006)

Original title

Grounding: Die letzten Tage der Swissair

Directed by

Michael Steiner

Genre

drama film

Country

Switzerland

Runtime

2h

Rated

16

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows the final days of Swissair as the airline faces financial collapse leading up to the grounding of its fleet in 2001. It focuses on the managers and employees dealing with the crisis and the events that caused the shutdown.

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What happens

Grounding: Die letzten Tage der Swissair (Grounding: The Last Days of Swissair) is a 2006 Swiss drama film directed by Michael Steiner and Tobias Fueter. It depicts the final days before the grounding of Swissair’s fleet on 2 October 2001 and the events leading to the airline’s collapse. The film received positive-to-mixed reviews and drew close to 400,000 admissions in Switzerland in 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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