[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.

[jaydubya2]

“Air Transat Flight 236”

[ThanhPhero]

I flew in the back end of C-47s in 1968. One I was on lost power to the right engine on takeoff from Da Nang. The tower ordered the captain to turn right around and land. The captain said no he was going home. We went straight west a short hop to the mountains where he turned south, cut off the other engine and we glided on the updrafts from the north-south ridgelines 200 kilometers or so back to base at Pleiku. Captain got grounded for a month and toasted in the O-club. The old DC-3 was pretty much a glider with motors anyway.