August 21, 2012 - Friends, relatives, and colleagues celebrated the lives of the crew of First Air Flight 6560 yesterday, a year to the day after the First Air Boeing 737 crashed into a hill in the far northern hamlet of Resolute.

The crash on August 20, 2011 took the lives of 12 of the 15 souls on board, including pilots Blair Rutherford and Dave Hare, and flight attendants Ute Merritt and Ann Marie Chassie. The Flight 6560 crew was remembered at a private memorial service in the First Air hangar in Yellowknife, NT, where the lost crewmembers were well-known in northern Canada’s close-knit aviation community.
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