He tried to warn the captain 18 times, using multiple different variations of phrasing, but failed to find a way to convey the urgency of the situation and make the captain change his course of action.The TSB highlighted how according to First Air's own standard operation procedures, the approach was clearly unstable and should have been aborted at an early stage. Captain Blair Rutherford was designated as pilot flying for the segment, and First Officer David Hare as the pilot not flying. Reports received shortly after take-off indicated deteriorating weather at Resolute, but the crew agreed that the flight should not divert. Under a significantly increased workload, neither pilot noticed the partial disengagement of the autopilot. It found that the crew's decision to initiate the descent from cruise altitude was late, and it resulted in a significantly increased workload that affected the crew's subsequent performance and ability to properly track all parameters.The approach was entirely flown on autopilot, which was correctly set to capture the The deviation was correctly shown on the onboard localizer indicator. Mayday - S14E10 - Death in the Arctic (First Air Flight 6560) All Rights Reserved Human error, weather and equipment failure combined to cause the deadly First Air crash in Resolute Bay in 2011, according to the Transportation Safety Board. Blair and Rutherford had received outdated crew management training in a two-day course that was compressed into four hours.“The first officer’s suggestions weren’t compelling enough to alter the captain’s mindset and the first officer likely felt inhibited from taking control of the aircraft from the captain,” board member Kathy Fox told reporters in Ottawa where the report was released.“Crew resource management is supposed to help flight crews in exactly these kinds of situations.”Fox said Transport Canada is updating its training, but she warned there will be “gaps” unless all airlines are required to apply the standards on a daily basis.A blizzard of lawsuits followed in the wake of the crash, naming First Air, Nav Canada and the department of National Defence as defendants. Rutherford replied that the autopilot was working fine.Puzzled as to why the plane’s navigational instruments weren’t lining up with ground-based systems, Hare asked if they’d done something wrong. The board stressed the risks posed by unstable approaches that are continued to a landing, and called for airlines and authorities to enforce standard operating procedures and Differing opinions on the flight deck partially led to the death of 12 people in the First Air flight 6560 crash in August 2011 in Resolute Bay, Nunavut according to a report released by the Transportation Safety Board Tuesday. Three passengers survived with severe injuries. The report suggested Rutherford is likely to have understood the remark as a request to prepare the plane for landing.“The captain’s mental model was likely that the approach and landing could be salvaged, and the (co-pilot’s) mental model was almost certainly that there was significant risk to the safety of flight and that a go-around was required. “But what ultimately tied all these things together was that as the flight progressed, each pilot developed a different understanding of the situation and they were unable to reconcile that difference.”Trouble began for Flight 6560 when Rutherford began the descent into Resolute Bay.