Swiss television plans documentary film on Swissair grounding

According to the NZZ am Sonntag, Swiss television (SF) is working on a documentary film that will show a different view of the grounding. UBS is currently examining whether Marcel Ospel should appear in the film. And André Dosé is willing to do so, if the film presents the facts correctly. Otto C. Honegger, head of the DOK editorial department at SF, told NZZaS that it would not be good if the plan were to be made public before the interviews with the protagonists had been taken. The plan is not to produce a counterstatement to the feature film Groundings, which is currently running in theaters, but rather a journalistic treatment with interviews of those involved. More people are to be presented than is the case in the feature film. All the main participants are to have their say. The producer of the feature film, Peter Christian Fueter is not surprised by the SF project. He had discussed with SF representatives a few years ago whether a documentary should be made parallel to the film. Fueter also agreed to make the extensive material collected during the research available to television. The broadcast date is scheduled for October 2, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the grounding.