It should have been a routine landing for First Air Flight 6560 at Canada's Resolute Bay Airport, despite the harsh Arctic conditions.
For aviation buffs, the Resolute airport is home to many legends of Canadian aviation. Ill-fated chartered First Air flight 6560 was following the normal flight path for landing at the Resolute Bay, Nunavut, airport when it crashed into a hill about two kilometres east of the runway, according to a senior official with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Three survivors — a 48-year-old man, a 23-year-old woman and a seven-year-old girl — were first transported that day to Qikiqtani General Hospital in Iqaluit.

During the approach to Runway 35T, the aircraft impacted a hill at 396 feet above sea level (asl) and about 1 nautical mile east of the midpoint of the Resolute Bay Airport … Social Sharing
On final approach to Resolute Bay in poor weather conditions, while descending on an ILS procedure to runway 35T, aircraft hit the ground and disintegrated 1,8 km north of the airport. The tiny Arctic community of Resolute Bay, Nunavut is in shock after 12 people were killed and three others injured when a First Air Boeing 737 crashed early Saturday afternoon. The airplane had departed Yellowknife Airport, NT (YZF) on a domestic charter flight to Resolute Bay. Resolute Bay, Resolute, Nunavut (YRB/CYRB) flight tracking (arrivals, departures, en route, and scheduled flights) and airport status. Twelve people are dead after a First Air Boeing 737-200C crashed into a hillside close to the Resolute Bay airport Aug. 20, in one of the worst air disasters ever recorded in Nunavut. RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut – A chartered Boeing 737 plane crashed Saturday afternoon as it was approaching an airport in Canada's Arctic region, killing 12 people, police said. Three passengers were seriously injured while all 12 other occupants were killed. A statement from the company said that the last communications with the flight were at 12:40 local time, approximately eight kilometres from Resolute Bay airport… Resolute Bay Airport is a hub for charter flights throughout the rest of the High Arctic, shuttling not only researchers and scientists to their field camps but also eco adventurists to Quittinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, and Grise Fiord . It instead turned into a mysterious disaster. Plane crash near Resolute Bay kills 12 A 737 passenger jet crashes near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, in Canada's High Arctic, killing 12 people and injuring three others on board. On the 20th of August 2011, a Boeing 737 carrying passengers and cargo to the remote Canadian Arctic outpost of Resolute Bay crashed into a hill on approach to the airport, killing 12 of the 15…