.....;Posted on 05/29/2014 8:32:05 AM PDT by virgil283
"On July 23, 1983, in the small town of Gimli, Manitoba, Captain Robert Pearson and Co-Pilot Maurice Quintal expertly glided a 100-ton Boeing 767 carrying 69 people to a safe landing without engines, air brakes or flaps, and minimal control of the aircraft......"
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It crash landed in the ocean off of a resort, and many people in the resort rushed out in boats to pull passengers out of the water.
The majority lived, if I recall correctly.
That was the first leg of the trip. The plane ran out of fuel on the second leg, from Ottawa to Edmonton, which is some 2,800 km (1,740 miles).
Actually what Scully did relative to flying was not that difficult. The landing of the 767 in Gimle Canada was a more difficult flying feat. Scully had miles of water to land on. The Gimle Glider (a 767 with out power) had just a few thousand feet to land on.
Scully's brilliance was his decision making. If he tried to go back to La Guardia or make it to Tetterboro he had one chance to land and if he did not make it to the runway an airliner full of fuel and passengers would come down in a heavily populated area. He had little time to make the decision. He made the right decision as did the pilot of the Gimle Glider.
I salute both exceptional pilots.
Kinda like the Coast Guard's
"You have to go out, You don't have to come back"
Or, submarines going down but not coming up. Yewww! What an awful way to go. Hell, I sometimes thought we were a sub in the North Atlantic in 50’ seas on a destroyer escort.
Yeah I remember those seas on one fisheries patrol in January. On the mid-watch the Captain was being kept awake by a loose monkey's fist banging on the hull of his stateroom. As BMOW it was my task to secure it in a wet pitching deck.
Yes, but the A300 was the first wide body twin engine, a market that now dominates large commercial airliners.
At least it was when my uncles and father flew in World War II.
When are going to switch to binary? The benefit of the metric system is that it allows bureaucrats to count on their fingers.
I remember when this happened. It was shocking that no one was injured or had a heart attack! I know that there are probably MANY that saw God’s hand in that landing that day!
netflix is streaming a series about air disasters that has this as one of the episodes. Don’t remember what it was called though.
No !....you are Kidding?
How many new pairs of underwear did they pass out after the plane was emptied?
Posted November 2007 on Damn Interesting site
A crew of engineers from Winnipeg airport clambered into a van and headed for Gimli to assess the damage. During transit, however, their vehicle unexpectedly ran out of fuel, nearly ripping a hole in the delicate space-irony continuum.
This one is worth a BUMP just because these pilots basically redefined “awesome” for all eternity. Please alert me when these guys near the Pearly Gates... I’ll mix the martinis and throw the rose-petals.
45 minute video about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTRAQAzey4w
This was just after Canada had switch from Imperial measurements to metric. They had run out of fuel because the person responsible for fueling the plane made an error in calculations of equivalency between the two measurement systems.
The name of the town is Gimli with an “i”, BTW, not Gimle with an “e”. They landed on what used to be a WW11 RCA runway.
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