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An independent government agency, The Transportation Safety Board, finally released a report on Tuesday summarizing its findings from an investigation into First Air flight 6560, i.e. the chartered jet that slammed into a Resolute Bay hill and transformed a military training exercise into a real rescue operation.
Primarily, the report points out that no single factor exclusively caused the 2011 plane crash that cost a dozen lives and rocked a Nunavut town. Instead, the report called on the federal government and the airline industry to reduce unstable approaches to a landing and improve crew communications. Moreover, the report said that military presence was not a cause or a contributing factor to the incident, as it said that neither the military tower nor the military terminal controller “had sufficient valid information available to cause them to issue a position advisory” to the First Air flight.
According to a TSB news release, “the investigation concluded that a combination of factors contributed to the accident.” It was highlighted that the first officer intended to abort the landing, but the pilot initially had a different view. It was explained that “central to the TSB findings was that, although 2 pilots were aware they were off course, they each had a different understanding of the situation and did not take corrective action in time.” However, the aircraft failed to intercept the runway localizer and instead veered toward the right and ultimately hit a hill just over a kilometre east of the runway.
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