Exclusive for Podcrashers:
On August 20, 2011, First Air 6560 crashed into a hill while approaching the airport in Resolute Bay, Canada, killing 12 of the 15 people onboard. In this Patreon-exclusive episode of Take to the Sky: the Air Disaster Podcast, Shelly shares the unsettling story of how a disagreement in the air amongst the flight crew led to an irrevocable disaster on the ground.Sources consulted for this story:
- First Air Airlines, Wikipedia
- Duffy, Andrew (May 20, 2014). Ottawa Citizen. First Air Flight 6560 crash: Jet never lined up with Nunavut runway, TSB report finds
- Staff Writer (August 22, 2011). CBC News. Resolute Bay crash victims
- Staff Writer (September 19, 2011). CBC News. Survivor says Resolute plane crash 'came out of nowhere'
- First Air Boeing 737-200, C-GNWN, Flight 7F-6560 (August 28, 2011). Kathryn's Report
- The Canadian Press (March 25, 2014). Appeared in The National Post. 'I don't like this': Argument in the cockpit one of various reasons for 2011 Arctic plane crash: Safety Board
- Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Aviation Investigation Report A11H0002
- Zach Dubinsky (March 25, 2014). CBC News. First Air captain ignored co-pilot's warnings before Nunavut crash
- Air Disasters for the Smithsonian Channel. Episode 10, Season 8. "Death in the Arctic."
- Resolute, Nunavut. Wikipedia
Credits:
Written and produced by: Shelly Price and Stephanie HubkaDirected and engineered at: Snow Monster Studios
Sound editor: Podcast Engineers
Producer: Adam Hubka
Music by: Mike Dunn
The crash site of First Air flight 6560 in Resolute is viewed from the Resolute Airport in Resolute, Nunavut on Aug. 23, 2011. Source: SEAN KILPATRICK /The Canadian Press
Authorities work at the scene of the First Air crash site in Resolute Bay, Nunavut. Twelve people were killed when Flight 6560 went down on Aug. 20, 2011. Source: Nicolas Laffont/Canadian Press
Captain Paul Rutherford. Source: Kathryn’s Report.
