Landing A Boeing 767 Without Engines Gimli Glide Mayday Air Disaster

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PART 1 | July 23, 1983 - It’s a calm summer evening. Air Canada flight 143 is on its way to Edmonton from Montreal. Captain Bob Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal are both veteran pilots, but they’re flying a new automated Boeing 767. Midway through the flight, things begin to go horribly wrong. The plane is in danger of running out of fuel. Pearson decides to land as soon as possible. He heads for Winnipeg. As he descends he loses one engine, then another. The huge Boeing is powerless and falling from the sky – it won’t make it to Winnipeg, Gimli, a decommissioned air base nearby, is the best bet. • But the only way for Pearson to get his plane safely down is to try a manoeuvre that only glider pilots would know about. Bob Pearson flies gliders in his spare time and forces the plane into a sideways free fall. It’s called a sideslip. As Pearson touches down, his front landing gear collapsed, his rear tires blow. The first-ever 767 to land without engines does so without so much as a single serious injury. • From Season 5 Episode 2 Gimli Glider : Air Canada 143 (Boeing 767) It’s a calm summer evening when an inexplicable failure strikes – the loss of two engines on a brand new passenger jet midway between Montreal and Edmonton. Powerless at 30-thousand feet, the pilot needs all his skill, and a little bit of luck, to get his plane to the airport. But his saga doesn’t end there – because the runway he thought was abandoned is anything but. • Welcome to the OFFICIAL Mayday: Air Disaster YouTube Channel. • Mayday: Air Disaster is a dramatic non-fiction series that investigates high-profile air disasters to uncover how and why they happened. Mayday: Air Disaster follows survivors, family members of crash victims and transportation safety investigators as they piece together the evidence of the causes of major accidents. So climb into the cockpit for an experience you won’t soon forget. • Subscribe to the OFFICIAL Mayday: Air Disaster channel here: https://bit.ly/2PQnaMI • #MaydayAirDisaster #MaydayInvestigation #AirEmergency #MaydayEpisodes #planecrashes #airplanecrashes #aviationaccidents #airplanedisasterdocumentary #aircrashinvestigation #Boeing767 #GimliGlider #AirCanada143

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