aviation

The largest number of new flights will serve Kittilä, Ivalo and Kuusamo. (Yle)

Finnair adding more flights to Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, January 27, 2014 at 10:09
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Finnair and travel sector operators have concluded a cooperation agreement that will add more flights between Helsinki and destinations in

Lapland tourism would increase if air connections were better, say local businesses. (Yle)

Poor air connections cost Finland’s Arctic millions

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 14:36
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Northern Finland loses millions of tourism euros per year due to poor flight connections, according to a Lapland Regional Council

Iceland Society Society (Iceland)

Video released of 2013 plane crash in northern Iceland

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 14:48 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 20:48
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A video has been uploaded to YouTube showing a small plane hitting the ground and exploding into flames in northern

The commission presented its report on Tuesday. (Nils Eklund/Sveriges Radio)

Norway Society Society (Norway)

Air traffic control was cause of Hercules crash in Sweden’s Arctic

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 09:28
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Swedish air controllers gave a Norwegian military plane the wrong information and caused it to crash into a mountain, concluded

The Kluchevskoy volcano on Oct. 19, 2013. All told, seven volcanoes were listed as “active or restless” on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and Northern Kuriles Islands on Sunday. (Courtesy Demyanchuk Yu, IVS FEB RAS, KVERT / Alaska Dispatch)

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Russian volcano erupts, prompts airspace warnings in Alaska’s Western Aleutians

Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 09:28
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Some of the most active volcanoes in the world were currently erupting on the Kamchatka Peninsula in southeast Russia

Air Greenland's service between Iqaluit and Nuuk was less successful than hoped. (CBC)

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Air Greenland to reduce Iqaluit-Nuuk flights in 2014

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 11:27
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Flights between Iqaluit, the capital of Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, and Greenland’s capital, Nuuk have wrapped up for

The TSB has recovered the wreckage of the helicopter that crashed into the Arctic Ocean earlier this month. (Transportation Safety Board)

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Crashed helicopter recovered in Canadian Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 14:58
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A Coast Guard helicopter that crashed two weeks ago into the M’Clure Strait on the north shore of Banks Island,

The Transportation Safety Board released this image of the Amundsen's helicopter, which was discovered on the ocean floor. The Transportation Safety Board released this image of the Amundsen's helicopter, which was discovered on the ocean floor. (Transportation Safety Board)

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Crashed helicopter found in Canadian Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 15:14
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The chopper that went down earlier this month in the M’Clure Strait in the Canadian Arctic has been found. But

Ten people were killed when an airplane crashed just after takeoff in Soldotna. (Alaska Public Radio Network)

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Alaska: Despite fewer small plane crashes, 2013 yields more fatalities

APRN
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 14:47 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 13:37
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A rash of small plane crashes late this summer in Alaska has pushed the number of crash related fatalities past

This map shows the location of the crash, about 600 kilometres west of Resolute, in the Northwest Passage north of Banks Island. (CBC)

Canada Society Society (Canada)

Remembering the victims of helicopter crash in Canadian Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 09:29
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Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is investigating a tragic incident in which three men were killed Monday when the helicopter

The Amundsen coast guard icebreaker. (ArcticNet / CBC)

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UPDATED: Coast guard helicopter crash kills 3 in Canadian Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 13:57
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A helicopter operating with the Canadian Coast Guard research icebreaker Amundsen crashed into the Arctic Ocean yesterday. Three crew aboard

View across Reykjavík in Iceland from Öskjuhlíd Hill. (Kirsty Wigglesworth, File / AP)

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Flights to Iceland to start next March from Edmonton, Canada

CBC News
Posted: Monday, September 9, 2013 at 15:28 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 20:50
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Flights to Iceland will start departing from Edmonton International Airport next March, city and airport officials announced on Tuesday.

Is that a drone in your airspace? Alaska's skies may be Ground Zero for an FAA test project to transition drones into the broader domestic airspace. (Aaron Jansen illustration / Alaska Dispatch)

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Alaska aviators: Is that a drone in your airspace?

Colleen Mondor, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, August 26, 2013 at 11:17
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As the national conversation builds about what drones should and should not be used for in the U.S. (along

Resolute, Nunavut. Photo: Sean Kilpatrick, The Canadian Press.

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Severed cable may mean delays at airport in Resolute, Nunavut

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 8, 2013 at 09:47
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Flights heading to Resolute, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, are unable to land using instruments because

One of the test drones. (Alexander Linder / Sveriges Radio)

Business Sweden

Developing quieter supersonic airliners in Sweden’s Arctic

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 08:57
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Remember Concorde, the Anglo-French supersonic jetliner? One of the reasons it was phased out was because of the sonic booms