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OTTAWA — Saturday’s crash of First Air flight 6560 was not the Kanata, Ont.-based airline’s first fatal tragedy.
Twelve people, including four First Air crew members, were killed when a chartered Boeing 737 travelling from Yellowknife went down about eight kilometres from the Resolute Bay, Nunavut, airport, the flight’s final destination.
Three passengers survived the crash and are now recovering in hospital.
In 1996, an Ottawa man was one of two pilots killed when a First Air-owned twin-engined aircraft crashed in Markham Bay, west of Baffin Island.
Two previous crashes — which occurred within a four-month period between 1988 and 1989 — involved Hawker Siddeley 748 aircraft. One crash happened in Dayton, Ohio, and the other just outside of Toronto.
Two pilots were killed in each crash.
In 1979, nine people, including seven passengers, died when a de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 crashed in Frobisher Bay (now known as Iqaluit).
First Air is marking its 65th anniversary this year. It was founded in 1946 by Canadian aviation pioneer Russel (Russ) Bradley and began its operations under the name Bradley Air Services. It launched scheduled air service between Ottawa and North Bay, Ont. in 1973 and later added gateways in Edmonton, Winnipeg and Montreal.
It also services more than two dozen Inuit communities in Nunavik (in Northern Quebec), Nunavut and Northwest Territories.
The airline is wholly owned by the Inuit of Northern Quebec through the Makivik Corporation.
Following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, First Air cargo planes helped the relief effort by delivering search and rescue equipment and other supplies.
First Air has been named one of the 50 best managed companies in Canada several times by the accounting firm Deloitte.
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