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To: Lou L
...but it would be a bit frightening to lose both engines on an aircraft.

Check out the story of the Gimli Glider...a 757 that ran out of fuel and had to glide to an airport.

21 posted on 06/12/2017 11:22:25 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Another Canadian flight broke the gliding record of the Gimli Glider. Air Transat 236 ran out of gas on the way from Toronto to Portugal and had to land in the Azores.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236


38 posted on 06/12/2017 11:34:27 AM PDT by littleharbour
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