Final flight for famous 'Gimli Glider'

Financial Post via National Post ^ | 2008-01-24 | Scott Deveau

[Clive]

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[neodad]

Ping

[grjr21]

[Travis McGee]

aeroping!

[ArrogantBustard]

That ship belongs in a museum ...

[Larry Lucido]

I’ve always wanted a glider. Wonder what kind of vehicle you’d need to get it aloft?

[null and void]

It is rather impressive!

[ArrogantBustard]

The Smithsonaian Udvar-Hazy Center does not have a B767 in its collection ...

[Zeppelin]

That ship belongs in a museum ...

or maybe a museum belongs in that ship...

[freepertoo]

Just...WOW!

[IncPen]

ping

[Hebrews 11:6]

I’ve always wanted a glider. Wonder what kind of vehicle you’d need to get it aloft?

A really fast submarine.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Those doggone Imperial gallons again...

[mel]

I vaguely remember that story. How much time did they have to get the car racers off the landing strip?
REally an amazing story

[painter]

I remember reading the story in Readers Digest several years ago.

[icwhatudo]

[mel]

I see now it said 100 feet. these monitors are hard to read. especially with bad eyes.

[Larry Lucido]

“The plane’s nose gear eventually came to a stop just 100 feet from where the group had collected, after its front landing gear collapsed on landing.”

Reminds me of this classic: “Hwy 405: The Movie.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ-hG6vV16o

[chimera]

The Canucks seem to have those. What was the one incident where the crew misread a fuel leak in an A330 over the Atlantic, ran out of gas, and had to glide something like a 1000 miles to the Azores? Lucky for them they had the altitude to do it, plus a re-routing of their flight path south of the original line, which put the Azores in reach.