First Air Flight 64
De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter · Loss of control
From Iqaluit Airport (YFB) to Markham Bay Airport
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
- Aircraft type
- de Havilland DHC-6
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- C-GNDN
- Operator
- First Air
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Iqaluit Airport (YFB)To Markham Bay Airport
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
First Air Flight 64 was a domestic cargo flight of First Air from Iqaluit to Markham Bay in Canada, on which on 12 August 1996 a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed while landing at Markham Bay Airport. The two crew members died on impact.
Course of the flight
The Twin Otter was carrying six barrels of fuel for a helicopter company. The aircraft took off from Iqaluit at 08:58 local time (14:58 CET). At around 9:45 the aircraft touched down at Markham Bay. The runway there is 209 metres long. The touchdown took place just beyond the landing threshold; because of excessive speed, however, the aircraft bounced back up three more times before finally touching down. The captain decided to go around, as the aircraft could no longer be brought to a stop on the runway. During this attempt the landing gear struck rocks about 200 metres beyond the runway; the aircraft then briefly became airborne again and crashed a little later onto a rocky beach. Both crew members were killed.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The investigation concluded that the crew had decided to go around too late and that this had led to the accident. The triple touchdown on the runway, only 209 metres long, had probably contributed to the decision.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “First-Air-Flug 64” (revision 237184600, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: First-Air-Flug 64
- Article
- First-Air-Flug 64
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 237184600 · 2023-09-10 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q90500360
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "First-Air-Flug 64" (page 11241510, revision 237184600), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.