Gimli Glider

[mtgguitar]

It's not a glider, it is a Boing 767. Thirty-five years ago (Jul 23 1983) Air Canada Flight 143 lost power to both engines and the pilots were able to land it on a decertified airstrip that was being used as a drag strip. There are a few documentaries about the incident and there is a movie being made about.

The documentaries are as exciting as any thriller ever put out by Hollywood.

The background and after story are very interesting.

 

[brokentoeswalker]

Insane landing as well. They just didn't coast on down easily. Brought her in sideways until the last moment. If there wasn't a planeload of witnesses it would be unbelievable.

 

[DavGrape]

They lost power, all right; ran out of gas.
Incredible story.

 

[James R]

I remember when it happened.
I was still a kid, but I grew up in Winnipeg, which is about an hour away from Gimli.
It was big news.

 

[mtgguitar]

There are amazing stories connected to the incident. The pilots were initially punished, now they're heroes.
While the plane was descending the copilot was continuously doing trigonometry on a pad of paper to calculate distance/rate of descent/time/speed.
Later in their careers, the pilots flew the same plane a second time.

 

[Green&Clapton]

Necro thread. I think that this is a great documentary.

The Gimli Glider 767 incident

This is "The Gimli Glider 767 incident" by Mike Conron on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

vimeo.com

 

[mtgguitar]

There is a movie about the incident, I don't know how it can be better than the documentaries.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113018/

The two pilots were originally charged for allowing the plane to run out of fuel. Now they are heroes.

During the landing "Airplanes don't have horns."

 

[mtgguitar]

Swiss cheese model of accident causation

 

[mtgguitar]

 

[Bigfoot410]

I drove by a plane crash, well more of a plane skid off the runway at Pearson International in Toronto. All the people climbed up to the 401 highway where I was driving by and I thought "fuckin' hitchhikers" and kept going to work. Saw later that the plane burnt to the ground. No idea how many people got robbed on the highway though.

 

[Green&Clapton]

 

[Tone deaf]

Sounds like the name of a mixed drink or a sex move. "Then I gave her a Gimli Glider..."

Great story. I saw some version of it on TV, years ago.

 

[scrumm21]

just watched the full doc video. Crazy

I was drooling over the cars in the dragstrip scenes - f'n vintage awesomeness !!