On July 23, 1983, a unit conversion error left Air Canada Flight 143 without fuel at 41,000 feet - and a glider pilot in the left seat brought it home.
TaildraggerOn July 23, 1983, a unit conversion error left Air Canada Flight 143 without fuel at 41,000 feet - and only exceptional airmanship prevented a catastrophe.
TaildraggerOn July 23, 1983, a metric conversion error left Air Canada Flight 143 with half its required fuel at 41,000 feet - 69 people survived because a captain knew how to slip a jetliner.
TaildraggerOn July 23, 1983, a unit conversion error left Air Canada Flight 143 with less than half its required fuel - and both engines silent at 41,000 feet over Canada.
TaildraggerOn July 23, 1983, a metric unit conversion error left Air Canada Flight 143 with less than half its required fuel, forcing a dead-stick landing in a Boeing 767.
TaildraggerOn July 23, 1983, a metric conversion error drained Air Canada Flight 143 of fuel at 41,000 feet - and a glider pilot's instincts saved all 69 people aboard.
TaildraggerOn July 23, 1983, a unit conversion error left Air Canada Flight 143 with half its required fuel, forcing a dead-stick landing at a Manitoba drag strip with 89 people aboard.
TaildraggerOn July 23, 1983, a unit conversion error drained both engines of a Boeing 767 at 41,000 feet - and only extraordinary airmanship saved 69 lives.
TaildraggerHow Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet in 1983 and was glided to a safe landing on a Manitoba drag strip.
TaildraggerHow Air Canada Flight 143 ran both engines dry at 41,000 feet in 1983 and glided to a safe landing on a drag strip.
TaildraggerHow the Gimli Glider's deadstick landing teaches every pilot the three skills that matter most: best glide, a failure flow, and the forward slip.
PatternHow Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet in 1983 and glided to a dead-stick landing at Gimli.
TaildraggerHow Captain Bob Pearson glided a fuel-starved Air Canada 767 to a dead-stick landing at Gimli in 1983.
TaildraggerHow Captain Bob Pearson glided a fuel-starved Air Canada 767 to a dead-stick landing at Gimli using a slip every student pilot learns.
TaildraggerHow a metric conversion error left Air Canada Flight 143 without fuel at 41,000 feet, and a glider pilot landed a 767 with no engines.
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