As the trial of senior Swissair officials continues, following the company's collapse six years ago, Imogen Foulkes examines the Swiss people's past love affair with the airline.
From Our Own Correspondent was broadcast on Thursday, 8 March, 2007 at 1100 GMT on BBC Radio 4. Please check the programme schedules for World Service transmission times.
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"Swissair wasn't perfect, it was rotten through and through. That made us think about ourselves and our country and that's good for us"
Said a Swiss journalist
