Flight 6560 Yellowknife to Resolute, maybe in cruise (unusual) and this is an old 737-200 passenger plane
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First Air 737 crash - Canada
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CBC report:
A 737 passenger jet crashes near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, in Canada's High Arctic, killing 12 people and injuring three others on board.
Looking at the JP Airline fleets, First Air has a very varied fleet of 732s, all from different sources (i.e. all different Boeing customer codes), average age around 30 years old - four Combis (I suspect, given the passenger load, that the aircraft that crashed was a Combi?) and two all-pax.
Is this the first fatal accident involving a Canadian commercial jetliner since the DC9 at CVG in 1983?
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Within minutes after the Boeing 737-200 passenger jet slammed into a hill in Canada's remote Arctic region, military helicopters were landing at the crash site to evacuate the three survivors of the crash that killed 12 people.
In an unlikely coincidence, several hundred military personnel in the region preparing for a mock airliner crash training exercise suddenly found themselves plunged into a real rescue mission.
Now that's a bit lucky for the survivors!Sam Rudge
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From: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Inv...985/story.html
August 28:
Cottreau couldn’t say if the TSB will actually reconstruct parts of the Boeing 737-200C aircraft to see what went wrong Aug. 20 — as has been done in some other air crashes.
“It’s really too early to say what measures will have to be taken for the investigator in charge and his crew to get an understanding of what happened at the time,” Cottreau said. “That still needs to be thought out and decided on.”
But the black boxes containing voice and flight data, retrieved shortly after the crash, have been listened to, although the recordings of conversations that went on in the cockpit are protected, and won’t come out until the final TSB report, and then, only if the information they contain is important to the investigation, he said.
That final report could take as long as a year to produce.
“We’re going to take the time we need to do a thorough report and to answer the three questions for us and for everybody: what happened, why did it happen and what can we learn to help us make sure it never happens again. We are going to do our very best to find out the answers to those three questions.”
While some media reports suggested the TSB had focused on the weather in its initial report Cottreau says the TSB has made no report or statement about meteorological conditions at the time of the crash.
For now, he said investigators are focusing entirely on gathering as much data as they can.
“We’re not concentrating on any analysis yet. Once we leave the site, we want to be sure that we have everything we need to do a thorough analysis. That is consuming us right now,” Cottreau said.
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