downnorth:
It is a very sad day here in Yellowknife.
I'm sure I have seen these folks while passing on the ramp maybe even said hello. It is a small/tight aviation community here in Yellowknife and in Canada's Arctic.
Any loss of life of innocents is always sad, not just in our vocation.
My wife and I recently enjoyed the TV series about Buffalo Air, or such.
I have a question for you: why do these remote Arctic locations have to have gravel strips? Is it economics?
Seems like a paved strip would open that airport up to modern, perhaps smaller jet airplanes. Seems like a state-of-the-art, dense seating Gulfstream jet would make a lot more sense if the pax load is typically small.