Boeing 737 accident near Resolute, CA
On August 20, 2011, a Boeing 737 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Resolute, CA. No one was seriously hurt. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- August 20, 2011
- Place
- Resolute, CA
- Aircraft
- Boeing 737 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 0 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 74.719°N, 94.919°W
- NTSB ID
- 20110821X13149
Conditions
- Local time
- 5:30 PM
From Wikipedia
First Air Flight 6560 was a domestic charter flight that crashed on landing at Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, on 20 August 2011. Of the fifteen people on board, twelve were killed and the remaining three were severely injured. The Boeing 737-200 of First Air was operating a service from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, when it struck a hill obscured by clouds near Resolute Bay Airport.
The subsequent investigation found that a late initiation of the descent, the inadvertent partial disengagement of the autopilot during final approach, a drift in the aircraft compass system and poor communication between the flight crew resulted in the aircraft drifting significantly off course from the final approach path, descending into the ground moments after the crew initiated a go-around.
Text from Wikipedia, “First Air Flight 6560”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
