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A similarly interesting incident happened with another Canadian airline -- Air Transat Flight 236[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236 h
by yurisagalov 12y ago
A similarly interesting incident happened with another Canadian airline -- Air Transat Flight 236[1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
- refurb 12y agoTransat 236 is an amazing story. How lucky were they to run out of fuel, out in the middle of the Atlantic, but be able to glide to the Canary Islands? If it had had a few hundred pounds less of fuel, it would have ditched in the middle of the ocean and likely many of the passengers would have died.
- hanswang2013 12y agoNot only similar, Gimli Glider was glided 50 kilometres for about 17 mins. But Air Transat FLight 236 was glided 120 kms for 20 mins, which is the world record for gliding in Civil aviation.