First Air Boeing 737 - Doze mortos em desastre aéreo no Árctico canadiano

[Jorge Antunes]

Um Boeing 737 com 15 pessoas a bordo despenhou-se sábado no extremo norte do Canadá. Há três sobreviventes.
O avião da First Air, uma companhia aérea que serve as comunidades isoladas do Árctico canadiano, ligava Yellowknife a Resolute Bay e colidiu com uma elevação perto do aeroporto de destino. Não são conhecidas até ao momento as causas do desastre, apesar da fraca visibilidade registada naquele momento.

O Boeing 737 transportava 15 pessoas, incluindo tripulação. Doze ocupantes morreram e três ficaram feridos.

As operações de socorro contaram com a participação do exército canadiano, que realizava exercícios militares na região de Nunavut. As forças armadas fizeram questão de dizer que se tratou de uma coincidência.

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Crash: First Air B732 near Resolute Bay on Aug 20th 2011, impacted terrain


By Simon Hradecky, created Saturday, Aug 20th 2011 19:58Z, last updated Sunday, Aug 21st 2011 09:48Z

A First Air Boeing 737-200, registration C-GNWN performing flight 7F-6560 from Yellowknife,NT to Resolute Bay,NU (Canada) with 11 passengers and 4 crew, went missing while on approach to Resolute Bay and was found crashed. 3 passengers survived, 8 passengers and all 4 crew perished.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed the aircraft has crashed near Resolute Bay, 12 occupants perished, 3 occupants survived with injuries, their condition is not known. The crash site is located less than 2km west of Resolute Bay Community in rugged terrain.

First Air confirmed their Boeing 737-200 C-GNWN had an accident in the hills about 8km from the airport of Resolute Bay.

The Canadian Forces were conducting an exercise called Nanook 11, which includes the simulation of a major air disaster near Resolute Bay. The exercise was interrupted, the forces joined the search and rescue operation in progress.

The Canadian TSB reported investigators, dispatched to Resolute Bay to monitor the upcoming military exercise next week, were on scene quickly.

ALPA reported both flight crew perished in the accident.

Sources within the airline report the two flight attendants are amongst the fatalities, too.

Locals reported poor visibility and low cloud. The local weather station reported visibilities at or above 8km/4.3nm with fog, rain, humidity close to 100%.

A listener on frequency reported the crew of C-GNWN had called 3nm final for runway 35T, which proved to be their last radio transmission. Temporary Tower tried to raise them without success. Another aircraft was on approach to runway 17T and went around because of fog, they were asked by tower whether they could see anything. During their second approach the fog lifted and the crew of that aircraft was able to see a debris field and black smoke at the top of a hill.

Photographer Nicolas Laffont told The Aviation Herald, that he took the shot of the Crash Site from Resolute Bay Airport.

The Boeing 737-200 combi aircraft C-GNWN was in a 5 palette configuration with room for 34 passengers and 5 cargo palette positions.

Resolute Bay Airport offers a gravel runway 17T/35T of 6500 feet/1980 meters length, an ILS is available for approach to runway 35T. Following the crash the ILS was NOTAMed unserviceable.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/FAB6560/history/20110820/1400Z/CYZF/CYRB

Metars:
CYRB 201900Z 15008KT 8SM VCFG OVC006 07/06 A2985 RMK SC7 VIS N-E 3 FG TOP OF HILL SLP113
CYRB 201800Z 19008KT 10SM VCFG SCT003 OVC010 07/07 A2983 RMK SF3ST5 SLP108
CYRB 201700Z CCA 20007KT 10SM VCFG SCT002 OVC009 07/06 A2982 RMK SF2ST6 SLP105
CYRB 201649Z 18013KT 5SM -DZ BR OVC003 RMK ST8
CYRB 201600Z 18008KT 10SM -DZ OVC007 06/06 A2981 RMK ST8 SLP100
CYRB 201533Z 17008KT 5SM -DZ BR OVC006 RMK ST8
CYRB 201500Z 18016KT 1/2SM R35/2200FT -DZ FG VV002 06/06 A2979 RMK FG8 SLP095
CYRB 201450Z 17013KT 5/8SM -DZ BR VV002 RMK FG8
CYRB 201434Z 17016KT 15SM -DZ OVC005 RMK ST8
CYRB 201400Z 16014KT 15SM BKN009 OVC070 07/06 A2979 RMK SF4AC4 SLP094

Relevant NOTAMs:
08/020 (110123) - CYRB DAH IS AMENDED AS FLW:
CLASS D RESOLUTE MTCA IS ESTABLISHED AS FLW:
THE AIRSPACE WITHIN 80 NM RADIUS 744301N 945810W
700 FT AGL TO FL200. FOR OPS NANOOK.
FREQ FOR OPS NANOOK:
RESOLUTE TML: 228.5000 MHZ
: 123.075 MHZ
GLOWWORM(MIL PAR): 243.4000 MHZ
: 128.850 MHZ
RESOLUTE TWR: 236.5 MHZ
: 122.1 MHZ
RESOLUTE GND: 122.6 MHZ
: 149.15 MHZ. 23 AUG 17:00 2011 UNTIL 28 AUG 01:00 2011. CREATED: 21 AUG 04:08 2011


08/019 (110122) - CYRB ILS 35 U/S. WIE UNTIL 22 AUG 23:59 2011. CREATED: 21 AUG 00:47 2011




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Progress Report-First Air Flight 6560, Boeing 737 Accident, 20 August 2011, Resolute Bay (A11H0002) (http://www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/medias-media/majeures-major/aviation/A11H0002/pr-a11h0002-20120105.asp)

In the hours before the accident, the weather in Resolute Bay was variable with fluctuations in visibility and cloud ceiling. Forty minutes before the accident, the visibility was 10 miles in light drizzle with an overcast ceiling at 700 feet above ground level (agl). A weather observation taken shortly after the accident, reported visibility of 5 miles in light drizzle and mist with an overcast ceiling of 300 feet agl.

The weather conditions required the crew to conduct an instrument approach using the aircraft flight and navigation instruments. The crew planned to conduct an instrument landing system (ILS) approach to Runway 35T. This instrument approach provides guidance down to weather minimums of 1⁄2 mile visibility and a ceiling of 200 feet agl.

The crew initiated a go-around 2 seconds before impact. At this time, the flaps were set to position 40, the landing gear was down and locked, the speed was 157 knots and the final landing checklist was complete.

Another aircraft successfully completed an ILS approach to Runway 35T approximately 20 minutes after the accident. NAV CANADA conducted a flight check of the ground based ILS equipment on 22 August 2011; it was reported as serviceable.

The Resolute Bay Airport is normally an uncontrolled airport (no Air Traffic Controllers). A temporary military control zone had been established to accommodate the increase in air traffic resulting from Operation Nanook, a military exercise taking place at the time. Information from the military radars that had been installed for the exercise was retrieved for TSB analysis.

The technical examination of the aircraft at the accident site revealed no pre-impact problems. Analysis of the flight data recorder information and examination of the engines at the site indicate the engines were operating and developing considerable power at the time of the accident. Analysis of the aircraft flight and navigational instruments is ongoing.

Currently, the TSB is classifying this occurrence as a controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) accident. CFIT occurs when an airworthy aircraft under the control of the flight crew is flown unintentionally into terrain, obstacles or water, usually with no prior awareness by the crew. CFIT is one of the issues identified in the TSB Watchlist.