SWISSAIR FLIGHT 111; RETIRED CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR CLAIMS EVIDENCE OF ARSON WAS SUPPRESSED BY HIS SUPERIORS. FIFTH ESTATE EXPOSEE;

"In a stunning disclosure, Tom Juby, an RCMP arson investigator who retired in 2002, confirmed to the Star Wednesday night that a team probing the disaster uncovered evidence that may suggest there was such a device on board but senior officials with the force stymied his efforts to look at it closer.

Juby said investigators found abnormally high levels of magnesium, iron and aluminum — important ingredients in an incendiary device, in the cockpit area of the aircraft.

“There’s a whole lot more and it will be coming out soon,” Juby said in a telephone interview from his home in New Minas, just outside of Kentville, N.S.

CBC’s The Fifth Estate will be airing a documentary on questions about the crash on Friday night."

REPORTERS TONY VAN ALPHEN AND MEGAN OGILVIE: THE TORONTO STAR;

See related video on Fifth Estate site at:

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2011-2012/swissair111/

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"An incendiary device may have triggered the crash of Swissair Flight 111 that killed 229 passengers and crew near Peggy’s Cove, N.S. 13 years ago, says a retired RCMP investigator who pursued the case," the Toronto Star story by reporters Tony Van Alphen and Megan Ogilvie published on September 14, 2011, under the heading, "Ex-Mountie raises questions about Swissair crash," begins.

"In a stunning disclosure, Tom Juby, an RCMP arson investigator who retired in 2002, confirmed to the Star Wednesday night that a team probing the disaster uncovered evidence that may suggest there was such a device on board but senior officials with the force stymied his efforts to look at it closer," the story continues.

"Juby said investigators found abnormally high levels of magnesium, iron and aluminum — important ingredients in an incendiary device, in the cockpit area of the aircraft.

“There’s a whole lot more and it will be coming out soon,” Juby said in a telephone interview from his home in New Minas, just outside of Kentville, N.S.

CBC’s The Fifth Estate will be airing a documentary on questions about the crash on Friday night.

The Swissair flight from New York to Zurich slammed into the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 2, 1998. Among the dead were United Nations officials and a Saudi prince. The aircraft also carried hundreds of millions of dollars worth of diamonds that were never found.

Juby would not disclose any other evidence but revealed that his RCMP superiors and aviation officials didn’t support his concerns about a possible explosive device and prevented him from pursuing it for years.

Investigators conducted further tests but could not find the source of those elements and stopped work after 2001, he noted.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada concluded that an electrical fault in overhead wiring caused a short circuit and sparked a fire in the cockpit which led to the crash.

If there was any suggestion of a criminal act, the board would have turned over its probe to the RCMP.

Juby, 60, told the Star he has been fighting the RCMP since 2001 over the issue of high levels of magnesium and other evidence but to no avail.

“I filed my last series of complaints in 2007 and they eventually refused to deal with them,” he said.

Juby, who retired after 32 years with the force, noted he was bound by various statutes that prohibited public disclosure.

However, Juby added he has been free of those restrictions for some time and unsuccessfully attempted to gain public interest on other possible causes for the fatal crash. One reporter in Nova Scotia is currently working on a book about the disaster and questions surrounding it.

Spokespersons for RCMP and the federal safety board could not be reached for comment late Wednesday."

The story can be found at:

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/1054135--ex-mountie-raises-questions-about-swissair-crash?bn=1

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:

http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith

Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:

http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html

Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog; hlevy15@gmail.com;