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    Flight 6560 Yellowknife to Resolute, maybe in cruise (unusual) and this is an old 737-200 passenger plane
    moving quickly in air

  • #2
    Now news that it was actually on approach, 12 fatalities 3 survivors
    moving quickly in air

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    • #3
      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?
      Last edited by akerosid; 2011-08-20, 19:59. Reason: Further info

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      • #4
        Originally posted by akerosid View Post
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        Is this the first fatal accident involving a Canadian commercial jetliner since the DC9 at CVG in 1983?
        no:
        Air Ontario Flight 1363
        moving quickly in air

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        • #5
          Looks like a very remote region, hope they can find any survivors !
          A Former Airdisaster.Com Forum (senior member)....

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          • #6
            C-gnwn

            The aircraft involved has been identified as C-GNWN, a 737-210C. This was a 1975 build aircraft, the 414th 737 off the line.

            C-GNWN. Boeing 737-210C(Adv). JetPhotos.com is the biggest database of aviation photographs with over 5 million screened photos online!

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            • #7
              in this picture:



              you can actually make out the tail art - it matches the picture in the post above
              moving quickly in air

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              • #8
                CFIT in fog? hard to see anyone surviving that devastation.
                moving quickly in air

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                • #9
                  Crash Picture

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                  • #10
                    Looks like a nose first crash, spin?
                    A Former Airdisaster.Com Forum (senior member)....

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by AVION1 View Post
                      Looks like a nose first crash, spin?
                      yes, like it cartwheeled, but it should have been in a nose-high attitude, perhaps it clipped the ridge in the background first?
                      moving quickly in air

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                      • #12
                        Used to photograph this plane all the time when it was sitting out on the tarmac here in CYWG.

                        RIP to all souls lost on board.

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                        • #13
                          Was the ILS not functioning properly?

                          NOTAM CYRB 110122
                          CYRB ILS 35 U/S
                          TIL 1108222359

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                          • #14
                            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
                            A 5D3, some Canon lenses, the Sigma L and a flash

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                            • #15
                              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.
                              Now is it just me, or is Canada kind of stingy when it comes to releasing information during an investigation? I mean, it's an airplane that crashed short of the runway in fog and they've already looked at the black boxes. They can't even tell us the weather conditions? Hopefully they will soon form a committee to discuss the process of analysing the data in order to answer important questions - right after they paint over the logo on the tail fin.

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