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Don Maxwell - Oct 31,2009
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Here's a set of links to a video that might give you a new appreciation of splashing and dashing. Or maybe not. Anyway...<br /><br />PART ONE:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=A7pbYkVe4e4">http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=A7pbYkVe4e4</a> <br /><br />PART TWO:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=eTxkGvW7nJg">http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=eTxkGvW7nJg</a><br /><br />PART THREE:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=jvRe6l_PEm0">http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=jvRe6l_PEm0</a><br /><br />PART FOUR:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=8k6E_PpE0bg">http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=8k6E_PpE0bg</a><br /><br />PART FIVE:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Njc41rAwBvE">http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Njc41rAwBvE</a><br /><br /><br />(When one segment ends, just click on the next link.)<br />
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Walt Bates - Oct 31,2009
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Thanx, Don.<br />This Air Transat captain could have been famous (ala Sully) for his dead stick heroics. But in airline flying, if it is you that creates an emergency in the first place all subsequent heroics are forgotten! It is somewhat ironic that they departed 'Pearson International Airport' in Toronto, an airport that was named for a true dead stick hero who also departed there in July,1983. Air Canada Capt, Bob Pearson, an accomplished sailplane pilot, landed a dead stick 767 on a sports car race course in Gimli, Manitoba after both engines flamed out due to a fueling error in converting kilograms to gallons. That aircraft, tail number 605, is still known as the 'Gimli Glider'. Though the airport was (tongue-in-cheek) renamed for Lester Pearson, one of Canada's Prime Ministers, all pilots know the real story behind the renaming.
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Dave Edward - Nov 01,2009
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The ' Gimli Glider ' story is truly an epic Walt. Bob Pearson is one of those ' natural ' pilots and had extensive expierience on Lasairs and gliders. His F/O was Maurice Quintall...another great guy and pilot. Maurice had trained at RCAF Stn Gimli while it was still an Advanced Flying School base. The r/w that Bob picked was indeed a drag strip and had a metal guardrail down the middle. After side slipping the 67 , Bob saw the guard rail and straddled it....doing minimal damage to the airplane. The nose gear collapsed, due to a poorly written procedure in the QRH , which paralled the poorly written fuel drip procedures which led not only the pilots, but the ground mtce guys to totally screw up the conversion from U.S gals...to IMP gals ...to Litres....to Kilos.<br /><br />Since Air Canada had just been awarded the Technical Excellance Award for Airlines that year,it was the political thing to do.....fire the pilots....<br />I was in senior mgmt at that time and all uf us Supervisory pilots banded together and submitted our resignations...in protest. Bob and Maurice were ' disciplined...then quietly re-instated. Bob took early retirement and went to work in Korea for a while. I see Bob a couple of times a year, ...he is happy and healthy,...but still has a bad taste in his mouth about the way he was treated by AC. NASA gave him an award.<br />Maurice has just recently retired, after a long and full career with AC.<br /><br />Oh Yeah....Fin # 605 flew out of Gimli a couple of days after the incident. It went back into full line service two weeks after the event.<br /><br />Lestor B Pearson Intl Airport was once Malton....as you mention.....Lester B won the noble Peace Prize and was a good PM...in IMHO....but Bob wins the prize for coolness under adversity....and technical excellance in the hands and feet dept.
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Walt Bates - Nov 02,2009
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Don't know if you saw this, Dave, but right after Gimli a picture joke appeared in the Chicago Tribune. It showed an Air Canada B767 sitting on the ramp with a line of passengers boarding. Under the right wing was parked a fuel truck and many fuelers were standing around the area looking very confused as they scribbled and erased numbers. This was all very unsettling to the boarding passengers. Finally, one of the fuelers walked over to a passenger and asked, 'Excuse me, sir, but how many feet are there in a liter?'.
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Frank A. Carr - Nov 01,2009
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Great video and background comments guys. As I recall, both of these events were documented by a Cable TV <br />program called 'Seconds From Disaster' a few years ago. I forget now if this program series was done by <br />National Geographic, the History Channel, or whoever; in any event it was a non-traditional TV program in that it <br />strove for technical competency.
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Matt Tucciarone - Nov 01,2009
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Makes you wonder if they had believed it was a fuel leak from the beginning, could they have flown the rest of the way with one engine?
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