Azores Plane?

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Sprint100

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I am watching the National Geographic Channel and they are documenting a flight in which an Airbus A330 lost all power and glided over 70 miles to land safely. Anyone heard of this?

P.S. - For any in the L.A. County area it is on right now until 8pm.
 
Is that the one in South America that landed safely on a small strip of land? I might be thinking of something else.
 
It's actually this one. I saw that documentary. Neither the airline, the crew or the Canadian Aviation...thingy....would comment on the incident, though!!

Nice skills!!!
 
These passengers were very lucky. They were at FL330, no power for anything, and over the North Atlantic at night. The pilots glided to Lajes AFB. This AFB happens to be the emergency landing site for the Space Shuttle and it also has a runway 2 miles long.

Thanks for the article mtsu!!!!!! We were posting at the same time.
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This AFB happens to be the emergency landing site for the Space Shuttle . . .

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Well, one of many...

They actually had the RAT, so they had a little bit of juice.
 
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If I'm thinking correctly the RAT is that wind powered, fan type generator. Is this correct and what does RAT stand for?
 
Yep, it's the Ram Air Turbine. Just a windmilling turbine that (depending on the aircraft) can drive a generator and maybe hydr. It's just enough for emergency systems...
 
I saw the show the other night. Pretty interesting outside of the bad reenactments. Right after that show was another one on aviation about Alaska Airlines Flight 261 that crashed off the coast near Los Angeles. Pretty sad, but informative. They were kind of critisizing the Mad Dawg due to a lack of backup systems for the elevator control surfaces.
 
I too saw this documentery and I thought it was one of the most riveting (no pun intended, really) ones that I've seen. Truly an amazing story that could have easily ended in tragedy. For those who didn't see it, the pilot came in hot and slammed the plane on the runway, he blew eight of the twelve tires. I guess he wanted to get it down asap so that he could begin braking, he had no engines thus no reverse thrust. They said that at the end of the runway is a four hundred foot cliff. Pretty impressive if you ask me. I don't know when it airs again, but it is worth watching if you get the chance.
 
Captain Robert Piche was credited with saving over 300 lives,he was also blamed for the accident.Eventually investigators found maintenance and the engine maker RollsRoyce responsables for the braking of a fuel line that cause the loss of fuel
 
I also saw this documentary last night. It was very interesting. National Geographic has been showing alot of documentaries on airline accidents. I saw another one about the Azores Plane, one about the Alaska Airlines MD80 off of California, and one about the American MD80 that crashed in Little Rock. All have been very informative.
 
What's also interesting is that it's not the first complete engine failure due to fuel depletion in airliners in Canada.
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the pilot glided the airbus 85 miles with no power and put it on a runway and saved all lives aboard. and the passengers had teh gall to criticize the crews demeanor and the landing as "brutal".....some people jsut dont count their blessings.....amazing work and great skills.
 
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What's also interesting is that it's not the first complete engine failure due to fuel depletion in airliners in Canada.
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hey man thats pretty rude, im canadian and so are u, dont put down ur country like that man lol....... it can happen to anyone

That was an air transat plane i believe that lost power, that captain deserves every bit of credit! after the incident however the press needed some negative stuff on him, and they found out he once got caught with possession of marijuana.... quite funny how some ppl are so ignorant, if it wasnt for him, everyone onboard could've died.....
 
I thought the pilot made a mistake because he transferred the remaining fuel into the tank that was leaking, so essentially it was his fault due to lack of situational awareness.

But I will say, great job to him for saving the lives of hundreds of passengers after the mistake he made.
 
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What's also interesting is that it's not the first complete engine failure due to fuel depletion in airliners in Canada.
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hey man thats pretty rude, im canadian and so are u, dont put down ur country like that man lol....... it can happen to anyone

That was an air transat plane i believe that lost power, that captain deserves every bit of credit! after the incident however the press needed some negative stuff on him, and they found out he once got caught with possession of marijuana.... quite funny how some ppl are so ignorant, if it wasnt for him, everyone onboard could've died.....

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Anyone remember Gimli? Again, great skills, but it has you wondering...
 
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