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Grounding (2006)

Grounding poster
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
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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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