Cloud, fog and rain at time of deadly Resolute crash: report
Posted August 25, 2011 12:31 pm.
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An initial report by the Transportation Safety Board says there was cloud, fog and light rain when a chartered jet crashed into a hill while on approach to land at the Resolute airport.
Twelve people died in the crash, and three survived.
The report is the first confirmation of what the weather was like Saturday when First Air flight 6560 crashed 1.6 kilometres from the airport’s runway.
The report said there was a 60-metre cloud ceiling, fog with less than five kilometres of visibility, drizzling rain and light wind.
No cause of the crash has been determined, but investigators have recovered the plane’s black boxes from the wreckage and are processing them in Ottawa.
RCMP said the remains of one of the victims from Resolute have been positively identified and returned to family in the Arctic community.
