12 killed in Arctic plane crash of A Boeing 737 Passenger plane

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12 killed in Arctic plane crash of A Boeing 737 Passenger plane


    * From: AFP
    * August 21, 2011 8:24AM

TWELVE people were killed and three others injured when a passenger jet crashed in the Canadian Arctic, local media quoted police as saying.

A Boeing 737 operated by First Air with 15 people on board crashed near Resolute Bay in the Arctic territory of Nunavut, police said.

The plane was en route from Yellowknife to Resolute Bay when it crashed. Doctors were already at the scene, according to emergency services at the Trenton military base in Ontario.

Police and local officials in Resolute Bay - home to about 200 people - were not immediately available for comment on what may have caused the deadly crash.

First Air links about 25 communities in Canada's far north to major cities such as Ottawa, Montreal and Edmonton.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was expected in Resolute Bay on Monday.
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