First Air Crash Resolute Bay August 20 2011

[medEvac]

rest in peace, condolences to the families

[P-40]

Pete Mcleod ? Not sure how one is to interpolate your post.

[props ahead]

Heard a 737 crashed into a hill beside the runway in YRB... Doesn't sound good...RIP My thoughts go out to friends and families of those involved.

[armchair]

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[ettw]

Pm me with any info please

Ettw

[fingersmac]

I just came across this on Pprune.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/08/20 ... reloaded=1

A First Air flight has crashed near Resolute Bay, Nunavut in Canada's far North.

The plane, which departed from Yellowknife and was apparently headed to Resolute, crashed early Saturday afternoon.

A source said the 737 was carrying 15 passengers plus crew members.

Transport Minister Denis Lebel's spokeswoman Vanessa Schneider could not confirm the number of people affected.
"No firm details yet," she wrote in an email.

There were initial concerns the flight crash involved a military plane taking part in Operation Nanook but Defence Minister Peter MacKay's spokesman Jay Paxton told The Huffington Post Canada that information suggested it was not a military plane.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to fly to Resolute Monday night. Operation Nanook's main training exercise begins Tuesday. Nanook is a sovereignty and presence patrolling operation.

[bezerker]

Any more info? Hope it is a minor incident that is overblown.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/08/20 ... 32183.html

A First Air flight has crashed near Resolute Bay, Nunavut in Canada's far North.

The plane, which departed from Yellowknife and was apparently headed to Resolute Bay, crashed early Saturday afternoon.

A source said the 737 was carrying 15 passengers plus crew members.

Transport Minister Denis Lebel's spokeswoman Vanessa Schneider could not confirm the number of people affected.

"No firm details yet," she wrote in an email.

There were initial concerns the flight crash involved a military plane taking part in Operation Nanook but Defence Minister Peter MacKay's spokesman Jay Paxton told The Huffington Post Canada that information suggested it was not a military plane.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to fly to Resolute Monday night. Operation Nanook's main training exercise begins Tuesday. Nanook is a multinational sovereignty and presence patrolling operation.

[benoit.baril]

CBCNorth CBC North
URGENT UPDATE: RCMP confirms that First Air 737 flight 6560 from #yzf to Resolute Bay, Nunavut, crashed today near Resolute Bay.

[modi13]

Latest word is three survivors. Extremely low cloud and poor visibility at the time, possibly a CFIT.

[privateer]

My most sincere condolences to First Air and Family. This is very very sad news. I can't remember when the last 737 crashed in Canada.

[benoit.baril]

From a reporter on site
http://twitter.com/#!/nlaffont

[OceansEdge]

Indeed, a sad sad day for a great company and great people ... my heart and thoughts are with all those affected by this tragedy

[chipmunk]

So awful.

[SierraPoppa]

My sincere condolences to all concerned.

I can't remember when the last 737 crashed in Canada.

Wouldn't that be PWA314 Cranbrook Feb. 1978?

[cienki]

If anyone knows the names of the crew please PM. Possible it was family. Can't reach them right now.

[ozone]

Wow. Very sad to hear. My condolences.

[TA/RA]

Horrible news!

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The WX in Res changes so fast! I remember it going from 25sm+ SKC to 0/0 in less than 20 minutes. Condolences to friends family and everyone at First Air.

[TA/RA]

From the other forum.

[jet a1]

so sad.... thoughts with the crew and pax's families.

[cienki]

If that piece that I see in the middle right of the photo is the tail, it looks like it could be C-GNWN.

[Redneck_pilot86]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sto ... crash.html

A 737 passenger jet crashed Saturday near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, in Canada's High Arctic, killing 12 people and injuring three others on board.

Nunavut RCMP said First Air charter flight 6560 was travelling from Yellowknife to Resolute Bay with 15 people on board, including four crew members, the CBC's Patricia Bell reported from Iqaluit.

The RCMP said in a release it "was made aware of the possibility of some survivors." A flight list was not immediately available.

First Air provides scheduled passenger and cargo service between 25 northern communities with connections to Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and Ottawa. CBC
The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in CFB Trenton said helicopters and medical personnel are now at the site.

Bell said some people in Resolute Bay saw the crash, not far from the runway of the airport that serves the hamlet of about 200 residents.

"People in the community are understandably quite upset," Bell said.

Hundreds of military personnel are currently in the area for the massive military excerise Operation Nanook. But the co-ordination centre says that the incident was not a part of a simulation planned for the operation.

The plane had been scheduled to continue on to Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is scheduled to travel to Resolute Bay on Monday for his annual trip to the Arctic while Gov.-Gen. David Johnston, who is currently touring the Arctic, was scheduled to hold events in Resolute Bay this weekend.

Kanata, Ont.-based First Air provides scheduled passenger and cargo service between 25 northern communities with connections to Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and Ottawa.

The airline began in 1946 as Bradley Air Services, offering charter, surveying, passenger and cargo flights across northern Canada.

[Say Altitude]

Quote below taken from "The Airline Website". Sounds like it was posted by someone who was a witness....

"I was there. They called 3 miles final RW35T then nothing. The temporary tower tried to raise them. A Borek B99 was on approach to RW17T on the Back Course, planning to land after the 737. The B99 missed its approach on 17 (fog) and was asked by the temp tower "if they could see anything". Just after they tried a second approach, the fog lifted a bit and the top of the hill in the distance started becoming visible, with black smoke and eventually flames and a debris field coming into view.

Something I had hoped I would never see in my lifetime. If it hadn't been for the military presence, a response would have taken many hours if not days. Reports of 3 survivors means I and our crew may have witnessed a miracle."

Makes me nauseous thinking about this.....

Didn't they have a serious incident 7-8 years ago in YEG? Low vis approach in a 737 and landed beside the runway? Tore an engine off or something? I could be wrong...

Either way - it's sickening to think how terrible this is. Hopefully those that survived will make a full recovery...

[midwingcrisis]

Odd they would "clear" the B99 for an approach following...

[TA/RA]

No approach clearence required it is uncontrolled. Seperation is pilots responsibility via position reports. The Resolute Radio CARS station is only there for advisory.

[chipmunk]

YRB is temporarily designated a Class D control zone while Op Nanook is going on. Also a MTCA around that, as per NOTAM.