Tag: Instrument Approach
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On This Day In 2011: First Air Flight 6560 Crashed 1 Mile From The Runway, Killing 12 After An Unstable Approach And Missed Warnings Led To Disaster
On August 20, 2011, First Air Flight 6560, a Boeing 737-210C operating a charter flight from Yellowknife to Resolute Bay in Canada’s Nunavut territory, was approaching its destination when a series of small errors and missed warnings turned an otherwise routine landing into a fatal controlled flight into terrain. The aircraft, registration C-GNWN, carried 15…
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