[Clive]

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[neodad]

Ping

[grjr21]

[Travis McGee]

aeroping!

[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.

[Kevmo]

I had heard of this incident but it sounded like an urban legend. I’m glad to see it was a real story after all.

[stuartcr]

Named after a Tolkein dwarf?

[Sloth]

It was not until a warning signal began beeping at 41,000 feet somewhere over Red Lake, Ont., that the flight crew realized their error -- they had used imperial measurements to calculate how much fuel was needed rather than metric. The first warning signal indicating that fuel had run out on one engine was followed by a "sharp bong," indicating both engines were out of steam.

Don't they have fuel gauges?!

[ANGGAPO]

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but damned few old, bold pilots.
Anon.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

It was not until a warning signal began beeping at 41,000 feet somewhere over Red Lake, Ont., that the flight crew realized their error ...

Sooooo.....

Does this mean they didn't have the kind of simple fuel gauge that any Cessna would have?

[sinanju]

I remember flipping through the book about this.

A number of people were seriously hurt because the crew was so panicked on landing that they were shoving people out the after slides, which, as you can see from the photo, pointed straight down due to the nose wheel’s having collapsed.

[Edward Watson]

Boy, I remember this incident. Everything that can go wrong went wrong and the plane became the world’s largest and heaviest glider. Instead of acknowledging the pilot and crew as heroes, Air Canada decided to suspend them and claim “pilot error” or “human error” or other such nonsense. It wasn’t until much later that they were cleared and recognized for the heroes they were.

Glad to see the old bird is still around but sad she has to spend the rest of her days in the Boneyard. She should be in a museum but she’s too darn big.

[Ace's Dad]

I remember this incident; it was the few times I have ever seen the entire press corps at a news conference give anyone a standing ovation. Here’s the tie in to today: The only other time I saw such adulation from the press corps was George Romney’s final press conference as governor of Michigan.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The plane will probably stay in the desert until they can find another buyer, probably for operation in a third world country or possibly for conversion to a freighter.

[Fiddlstix]

Three Cheers for Captain Robert Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal!!
Ya Done Good Guys!

What a story.