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From CBC:

A 737 passenger jet crashed Saturday near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, in Canada's High Arctic, killing 12 people and injuring three others on board.
Nunavut RCMP said First Air charter flight 6560 was travelling from Yellowknife to Resolute Bay with 15 people on board, including four crew members.
The RCMP said in a release it "was made aware of the possibility of some survivors." A flight list was not immediately available.
In a statement confirming the crash, First Air said the plane's last reported communication was at 12:40 p.m. CT, approximately eight kilometres from the airport, and that the plane went down ten minutes later.
First Air provides scheduled passenger and cargo service between 25 northern communities with connections to Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and Ottawa. CBC The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in CFB Trenton said helicopters and medical personnel are now at the site.
The CBC's Patricia Bell said some people in Resolute Bay saw the crash, not far from the runway of the airport that serves the hamlet of about 200 residents.
"People in the community are understandably quite upset," Bell said.
Hundreds of military personnel are currently in the area for the massive military excerise Operation Nanook. But the co-ordination centre says that the incident was not a part of a simulation planned for the operation.
Passenger inquiries

First Air customer care centre: 1-800-750-0923

The plane had been scheduled to continue on to Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is scheduled to travel to Resolute Bay on Monday for his annual trip to the Arctic while Gov.-Gen. David Johnston, who is currently touring the Arctic, was scheduled to hold events in Resolute Bay this weekend.
Kanata, Ont.-based First Air provides scheduled passenger and cargo service between 25 northern communities with connections to Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and Ottawa.
The airline began in 1946 as Bradley Air Services, offering charter, surveying, passenger and cargo flights across northern Canada.


Plane crash near Resolute Bay kills 12 - North - CBC News

DirectTo

Damn. Good to hear of at least some survivors, and great that there were lots of military personnel in the area to help with the initial rescue.

CaptainCarl

Tailwinds brothers. Rest in peace.

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