Love your show (especially ones like this where no one was killed - it turns the stomach when you hear stories of a dozen, two dozen, a hundred or two hundred lives wiped out and thousands of lives affected)
This is an important piece of Canadian air travel history. I remember hearing it on the radio. Everyone at work cheered when we heard the plane landed with no loss of life. Seeing as Canada had just changed to the metric system recently, the error with the fuel was entirely understandable. I remember putting 10 litres in my car once, instead of 10 gallons. Thankfully my car had a relatively accurate fuel gauge and I added more fuel before I left the city to go to my hometown. The 767 didn't have that option, so it was totally due to the pilot's cool demeanor that the plane landed basically intact, with no serious injuries. AND after minor repairs, lifted off from Gimli. True Canadian ability to overcome.
Canadians are some of the most resilient on the planet. Only makes sense Air Canada has a good clean record with very few Crashes. I say a great big OH CANADA to that one.
Me and my dad were in gimli when she landed. I helped my dad with his rod and we were testing it in the quarter mile. Just before it was our turn to do the run we saw the jet coming in super quiet. The gimli airport has been closed for ages. Never forget it.
Re:comment: 👆Yikes! You must have been incredibly frightened to see this silent plane ✈️ coming towards you & not realizing it til it was practically on top of you! Really really glad & incredibly relieved that everything went as well as it possibly could. You’ll probably never forget it as long as you’re alive! Thanks for sharing your experience/story. Appreciate it.
Yes, amazingly incredible maneuver to land the plane. However it was probably an unnecessarily dangerous one had they instead done better calculations on what height they should be at different distances. Then the pilot could've done a zig zag pattern well in advance, so as to not be to high as they reached the runway.
@@superdudextreme2789 1. Small aircraft include glide characteristics in the manual; big iron does not, because lots of engines, etc. But it only takes watching airspeed and vertical airspeed to figure how many vertical feet drop there is per mile. 2. Create a chart of target altitude versus distance from airport. 3. If you're too high and still 10-15 miles out, you have plenty of time to adjust, either via 360 turns, S-turns, or via slip. If you're too low, you have to figure out another place to set down.
31:40 My favorite clip in the entire video --- the pilots receiving the "ultimate reward" for and seeing the best possible outcome of their hard work to stop the plane in time: namely, the two boys still pedaling away unharmed. I always well up in tears whenever I see that. :D
Amazing display of airmanship. I know it is a re-enactment, but the look on the first officer’s face as they were landing was priceless. Few pilots could have done what the captain did. Great job!
Dude is the man. I am a fan of the slide slip and was glad to see it used in such an ingenius way. Also, good crew teamwork. Clearly, an impressive feat of airmanship on par with the Miracle on the Hudson.
The side slip maneuver is a valuable tool that every pilot should be proficient with. I don’t remember it being a requirement when I was a student, but I learned it later and used it frequently.
I agree. Also, perhaps every pilot should have basic glider training and experience because one never knows.... I believe it was about the same time that a BA 747 had a four engine flame out when flying through a high altitude cloud of volcanic ash. Fortunately, the flight crew could restart the engines, and the aircraft landed safely.
In 1983, I was on an Air Canada L-1011. The jet had 3 rows of seats with 2 isles. During the landing in Winnipeg, there was a loud explosion as the wheels touched the ground. I remember looking at the two female flight attendants expressions as they looked at each other in terror. The jet landed safely and nothing was said.
I first saw this video several months ago, and still can't get over how incredibly cool it was that the captain had those nerves of steel and was able to do such a tricky thing.
They were, they both got recognition for this and very high honours if I remember correctly, the aircraft survived and they even flew on the last ever flight that plane took before retirement
They didn't mention in this video the whole story on the non-functioning fuel gauges. According to what I read there were two redundant fuel gauge systems. Only one was broken but a design problem caused both to fail when only one was bad. The temporary solution was to pull the circuit breaker on the bad system so the good one would function. A technician had pulled the breaker and logged and tagged it before on a previous flight. The previous flight went ok with that option. Another tech later reset the breaker and left it that way by accident/negligence, so the gauges no longer worked again. So, it was a perfect storm of events like that which caused them to run out. There was a service bulletin on the fix but had not yet been implemented. I say the plane should never have been allowed to fly with no working fuel gauge. System redundancy is the key to safe flying. That's one reason a pilot always does a preflight walk around inspection their self. Never believe anybody else.
I was thinking the same thing. Planes don't have horns. Think how loud they'd be and how loud the skies would be if they did. My God. We'd all be deaf by now.
@@kruemmelmonsterliebtkekse183 🤣 they don't. They'd be way too loud and with the sky lanes being as busy as I35 in Dallas with planes stuck in holding patterns. I bet impatient pilots would be honking at each other all the time. 🤷🏻♀️
One of my most favorite stories. Major skill, ingenuity and level headedness by the crew handling a unique emergency, no loss of life, lots of drama in the air and on the ground.
The right flight and ground crew at the right time. The obstacles they had to overcome to land that plane safety and not hit anyone on the ground was amazing.
Let's also give kudos to the ATC!! What a blessings!! Not to forget the investigating team as well, to see why it happened and them making sure training is well sufficient!! Thank God no one was seriously hurt or worse. The guy who messed up with the fuel will sleep better.. hope this doesn't break him.. 🙏
Pilot: I'm going to do this glider slide slip to slow us down and lose altitude. Co-Pilot: Have you ever done the glider slide slip in a jet? Pilot: No. Co-Pilot: But you've done it in a glider, right? Pilot: ... Co-Pilot: Right??? Brilliant flying!
I'll add Peter Burkill and John Coward (don't be fooled by his surname), too. They saved everyone on board his 777, even though the plane was completely destroyed during emergency landing.
The idea of both engines shutting down terrifies me. These pilots did what they needed to do even though they weren't trained to do so. That's a true pilot right there. :)
@dalydegagne1839 Having flown in gliders as a child, I can tell you there's not much sound until you touch down. I can also tell there is nothing on this earth like looking out along the wing at an eagle who's riding the same thermal as you are turn his head and look back at you. It's magic.
I have never heard of this amazing landing from both the flight staff and passenger experience. Truly amazing what the pilot and co-pilot were able to do to keep the airplane aloft far enough to reach a landing strip. Without fatalities or any serious injuries. Cudos to the whole flight staff - pilot, co-pilot, flight attendants. All of you remained so professional and assisted all passengers through the "panic" flight and landing. Well done on all of you!!
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Gimli Glider The aircraft remained in service until it's proper retirement in 2008, and now sits in an aviation graveyard in the Mojave Desert in California
it should have been flown back to Gimli and left there. even if gutted and just the metal shell. it should have gotten to go home. (yes i know the logistics of this makes it silly. but it still would have been nice.)
The Ram Air Turbine is actually about 24 inches in diameter. On newer planes if the RAT fails there is usually an inverter from the batteries to run the flight computers for about 10 minuets.
...unfortunately, C-GAUN didn't survive past this episode's airing. The Gimli Glider was scrapped in 2014; a company made about 10000 luggage tags from the fuselage skin, and a memorial/museum was opened in Gimli (2017).
What an amazing flight this was! I've got to go back and look, but the episode I watched before this seemed to end abruptly, but this one didn't, so I got to see the whole thing. This flight crew got everyone safely on the ground and I'm so thankful for that. I knew the plane landed safely, but still was hanging onto the edge of my seat!
Great job guys. I've experienced landing no engine in a 172 Cessna. There plenty of time to relax after you've done your job of getting on the ground. And clean out your shorts! Shallow s turns & slip to landing was all he had options for. He chose the best option considering altitude, airspeed,and distance. We used to call that "eyeballing it" The training he recieved in gliders paid off in spades ♠️. Regardless of type that "look" out the windscreen is the same. Great pilot, I would fly anywhere with a man like this. I retired after 26 years as a commercial pilot. The patience and perseverance to work thru the problems as a team cannot be discounted. CRM (Cockpit Resource Management was introduced not long after this. Its a division of workspace environment that specify which pilot does specicfic tasks designed to compliment each other . The first officer provided critical data without which could have resulted in a much worse, or catastrophic outcome. Thanks for a great video 📹 👍
They didn't mention that the pilots and maintenance crew were initially punished for allowing the incident to occur, Captain was demoted and suspended while the FO was only suspended. Of course they did win their appeal :D
It is very interesting that someone who has been around that area and lives in Winnipeg, it makes it much more fascinating, to have that local connection!
...well, I guess I'll slip it...this pilot was amazing, he flew it without all the bells and whistles....the gimli glider is a legend I'll fly with him and I hate to fly...
@@trawlins396 They eventually sold the plane for scrap at the end of it's service life. This company sold key chains made from the skin. Mine came from the vertical stabilizer. "Plane Tags" was the name.
Pure excellence and professionalism from the Captain and the FO. However I don't think it's helpful to initially tell ATC that there was a problem without explaining what the problem was. Surely ATC should know from the onset?
Bob Pearson did a great job of landing what seemed to be a doomed plane. 👏🏾 Good job Captain Pearson. You were not at fault for the lack of fuel. You did what was seemingly impossible. That makes you a hero in my mind. 👍🏽
Let's not forget First Officer Quintal, who years earlier had trained with the RCAF at Gimli and figured 143 had a better chance of making it there than to YWG.
I’ve just watched this episode & have to say that the captain was absolutely brilliant in his extremely difficult & very dangerous role in directing this plane that lost its engines & went sideways in the effort to land in Gimli MB! Congrats to you both! Believe it or not you 2 in the cabin literally had invisible angels guiding the you all the way to your literal stop without killing a soul or a soul on the ground that wasn’t aware that you’d be gliding into their path! I was actually grabbing my hair tightly hoping that it’d really work out okay for all involved! Better praise the Lord Jesus Christ for your safe arrival cause they’re invisible angels that can literally be told by the Creator to step in & intervene in a way that nobody on the flight ✈️ would be aware of! 🙏Thank you Jesus Christ for your help & sending your Holy Angels to literally STOP ✋this plane from injuring or killing a single person/soul! Wheww!
I guess your Lord Jesus Christ was just too busy to save the other thousands of people that died in plane crashes over the years. Next time you talk to him maybe you can ask him what he was doing on 9/11/2001.
God had to have placed that crew on that plane, Gimley was closer, and the car races were over. Speaking of horns, one saved us as our yacht sank at sea with no radio.
I understand that both pilots SHOULD have known how to calculate the fuel. *BUT* bc neither of them had received *ANY* training on it…I think it was *unfair* that they received *ANY* blame. Especially considering they did the impossible by landing the plane *not only* in one piece but with *so little damage* the plane was rapidly repaired & back in the sky! Other pilots like the one who landed on the Hudson River were awarded metals & awards for their landings. I *TRULY* feel this flight crew & *especially* the pilot who performed the slip maneuver never done in a major airliner *absolutely SHOULD* have been given awards & praised! Not assigned blame! The blame lay with the maintenance crew not having important parts, the fuel crew for not manually checking fuel levels if they were unsure of their math & *MOST OF ALL* with the airline for not training the fuel crew & pilots the new equations needed! Pilots were & still are absolute heroes! Maybe if there had been 200 passengers rather than less than 90 they would’ve been praised more. As I’ve noticed it’s the pilots of plane crashes with larger numbers of passengers who seem to get more praise. Likely due to the passengers & their families making a larger fuss praising the pilots & calling them heroes. Im glad this flight crew & especially the pilot seem to know what a miracle they achieved & that at least inside the industry were recognized as heroes.
This was one of the best episodes. That pilot is such a hero. I have so much respect for pilots. I hate the metric system btw. I hate how they do calculations and measurements in the UK and Canada. The US has the right idea.
Wow! That crew got many miracles. Thank God. But the question is,,, how could they have not trained on the NEW plane; from the mechanics; the pilots; and that malfunctioning processor that was just left..... so essentially they all played Russian roulette and didn’t die. So troubling that humans never learn. Same thing years later w the latest Boeing plane that was rushed and many died from those crashes. God was at work saving these particular people; and even the little boys and others there. Because the nose gear failed,,, they lived, too. Just amazing. This one made me cry.
Largely because the moment profit is involved (which is the core of any airline), then unless its mandated, companies will skimp on the training as much as humanly possible.
The trucks have to weigh in at weigh scales they could have scales on taxi ways. Or even better just put scales on the landing. Gear struts legs that way the pilots could get a read out on the weight on each landing wheel also confirm the cg of the plane by the weight on the nose wheel very easy to do
I fly Cessna 150-s and 172s Side slips are not easy, rudder aileron inputs are critical. These guys did an amazing getting this huge aircraft on the ground. These pilots and other crew are heroes. Got a give credit to the passengers as well. Gutsy bunch on this flight. Kudos
The Pilots are true heroes! But we should also commend the maintainence engineer who was right on the money when he suggested they were low on fuel and how the pilots asked for his opinions on the issue.
It’s extremely frightening to see the plane ✈️ doing a sideways dive, or whatever it’s called. That’d probably stop me from ever flying again! But did they ever do a phenomenal job!!!
8:50 The announcement is taken word for word from Air Canada's procedures. Now I forgive them for using the 1990s logo on the seatback covers (although it's 1983).
My husband was a private pilot. He loved doing side slips whenever he could. Whenever I was sitting next to him, we’d come in high above the airport but he’d level out right at the end and we’d still land near the close end of the runway.
There was a movie made about this story. It was called Free Fall, I think. This was an unbelievable event about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, life from the grasp of death.
The pilot is truly what I would call a gift from God. He knew what situation he was in, he knew the consequences of no fuel and though it was not his fault he accepted the responsibility of taking all the people on board to safety. Words cannot express such actions. God bless you.
It's like they say - any landing you can walk away from is a good landing and if you can fly the plane again it's a great landing - this was a great landing
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What I want is for you to stop posting the same videos with different titles....annoying
Still waiting for you to post the TACA 110 and Northwest 85 videos.
Love your show (especially ones like this where no one was killed - it turns the stomach when you hear stories of a dozen, two dozen, a hundred or two hundred lives wiped out and thousands of lives affected)
@@DonPapito,
@@DonPapito then stop watching their videos, have you ever thought about doing that?
My favourite episode ever. My grandfather was part of the crew that repaired the aircraft when it flew back to Montreal after it left Gimli.
This is an important piece of Canadian air travel history. I remember hearing it on the radio. Everyone at work cheered when we heard the plane landed with no loss of life. Seeing as Canada had just changed to the metric system recently, the error with the fuel was entirely understandable. I remember putting 10 litres in my car once, instead of 10 gallons. Thankfully my car had a relatively accurate fuel gauge and I added more fuel before I left the city to go to my hometown. The 767 didn't have that option, so it was totally due to the pilot's cool demeanor that the plane landed basically intact, with no serious injuries. AND after minor repairs, lifted off from Gimli. True Canadian ability to overcome.
Mars Climate Orbiter was lost for similar reasons.
Canadians are some of the most resilient on the planet. Only makes sense Air Canada has a good clean record with very few Crashes. I say a great big OH CANADA to that one.
Thankfully you didn't have to side slip your car to lose speed. And didn't have to "land" it.
I still fight the metric system. Of course, I'm an American lol
Great posting. Thank for your personal remembrance & accounting of all that happened which is always the best.way to really untangle event.
Me and my dad were in gimli when she landed. I helped my dad with his rod and we were testing it in the quarter mile. Just before it was our turn to do the run we saw the jet coming in super quiet. The gimli airport has been closed for ages. Never forget it.
🤗😃wow that's awesome
Re:comment: 👆Yikes! You must have been incredibly frightened to see this silent plane ✈️ coming towards you & not realizing it til it was practically on top of you! Really really glad & incredibly relieved that everything went as well as it possibly could. You’ll probably never forget it as long as you’re alive! Thanks for sharing your experience/story. Appreciate it.
@@dnsimingullible
@@Barbara-jq2seanother gullible
Didn’t you say you were near the pentagon on 9/11 too ?
This man is an aviation god. Pure airmanship and skill at its finest. He's a special pilot.
Yes, amazingly incredible maneuver to land the plane. However it was probably an unnecessarily dangerous one had they instead done better calculations on what height they should be at different distances. Then the pilot could've done a zig zag pattern well in advance, so as to not be to high as they reached the runway.
@@_MjG_I’d like to know how you suggest they do said calculations.
Don't call human beings God. God is God 🙏
@@superdudextreme2789 1. Small aircraft include glide characteristics in the manual; big iron does not, because lots of engines, etc. But it only takes watching airspeed and vertical airspeed to figure how many vertical feet drop there is per mile. 2. Create a chart of target altitude versus distance from airport. 3. If you're too high and still 10-15 miles out, you have plenty of time to adjust, either via 360 turns, S-turns, or via slip. If you're too low, you have to figure out another place to set down.
And how do you know that?
Are you a pilot?
Just asking…
I’m so damn proud of the pilot and first officer. The amount of talent they had to land that aircraft with no loss of life is inspiring.
Exactly. If I was on that flight I'd a given that pilot a special sort of "thank you". Think a garden hose and goofball. Heeeheee 😜
The ATC also deserves praise!
They were brilliant!
31:40 My favorite clip in the entire video --- the pilots receiving the "ultimate reward" for and seeing the best possible outcome of their hard work to stop the plane in time: namely, the two boys still pedaling away unharmed. I always well up in tears whenever I see that. :D
I'd definitely want him to be my pilot on a flight. Amazing. true heroes, all the pilots
@N. Warner it wasn't the pilots fault. The man on the ground who entered it kilos instead of lbs is the one who messed up.
I'd want him as my pilot too! Hes amazing.
@N. Warner Seriously?? Geeesuz Christ.
Amazing display of airmanship. I know it is a re-enactment, but the look on the first officer’s face as they were landing was priceless. Few pilots could have done what the captain did. Great job!
Agree. He was a great actor!
They should rename Lester B Pearson airport in Toronto to Bob Pearson.
Dude is the man. I am a fan of the slide slip and was glad to see it used in such an ingenius way. Also, good crew teamwork. Clearly, an impressive feat of airmanship on par with the Miracle on the Hudson.
Ingenious*
Didn’t Sully have glider experience too?
Didn’t TACA perform the slideslip as well?
The side slip maneuver is a valuable tool that every pilot should be proficient with. I don’t remember it being a requirement when I was a student, but I learned it later and used it frequently.
This is a video that every commercial air pilot should have to watch during their training.
I agree. Also, perhaps every pilot should have basic glider training and experience because one never knows.... I believe it was about the same time that a BA 747 had a four engine flame out when flying through a high altitude cloud of volcanic ash. Fortunately, the flight crew could restart the engines, and the aircraft landed safely.
@@dalydegagne1839 I agree. A lot of pilots today only rely on instruments. They have no idea how to handle a plane in it's most basic form.
In 1983, I was on an Air Canada L-1011. The jet had 3 rows of seats with 2 isles.
During the landing in Winnipeg, there was a loud explosion as the wheels touched the ground.
I remember looking at the two female flight attendants expressions as they looked at each other in terror.
The jet landed safely and nothing was said.
This captain is a G, Side slipping a jumbo jet is a Ballzy awesome move hats off to you brother
He's amazing.
I first saw this video several months ago, and still can't get over how incredibly cool it was that the captain had those nerves of steel and was able to do such a tricky thing.
He was amazing
This crew should have been given the highest awards available. You cant train for something you don't know to train for.
I agree. I don’t think they were ever truly recognized adequately for all the lives they saved.
They were, they both got recognition for this and very high honours if I remember correctly, the aircraft survived and they even flew on the last ever flight that plane took before retirement
They didn't mention in this video the whole story on the non-functioning fuel gauges. According to what I read there were two redundant fuel gauge systems. Only one was broken but a design problem caused both to fail when only one was bad. The temporary solution was to pull the circuit breaker on the bad system so the good one would function. A technician had pulled the breaker and logged and tagged it before on a previous flight. The previous flight went ok with that option. Another tech later reset the breaker and left it that way by accident/negligence, so the gauges no longer worked again. So, it was a perfect storm of events like that which caused them to run out. There was a service bulletin on the fix but had not yet been implemented. I say the plane should never have been allowed to fly with no working fuel gauge. System redundancy is the key to safe flying. That's one reason a pilot always does a preflight walk around inspection their self. Never believe anybody else.
They did mention the fuel guages
@@TractorMonkeywithJL They even have backups to the backups backing up the backups.
“And something the 767 doesn’t have…
is a horn”
Legendary.
I guess now a days airplaines have a horn :D
I was thinking the same thing. Planes don't have horns. Think how loud they'd be and how loud the skies would be if they did. My God. We'd all be deaf by now.
@@kruemmelmonsterliebtkekse183 🤣 they don't. They'd be way too loud and with the sky lanes being as busy as I35 in Dallas with planes stuck in holding patterns. I bet impatient pilots would be honking at each other all the time. 🤷🏻♀️
@@soupwifey u can Google it they have a horn but I guess they are only allowed to use it at the ground for the ground workers
@@kruemmelmonsterliebtkekse183 👍🏽good to know.
One of my most favorite stories. Major skill, ingenuity and level headedness by the crew handling a unique emergency, no loss of life, lots of drama in the air and on the ground.
The right flight and ground crew at the right time. The obstacles they had to overcome to land that plane safety and not hit anyone on the ground was amazing.
Let's also give kudos to the ATC!! What a blessings!! Not to forget the investigating team as well, to see why it happened and them making sure training is well sufficient!! Thank God no one was seriously hurt or worse.
The guy who messed up with the fuel will sleep better.. hope this doesn't break him.. 🙏
Rather than fall from the skies, the commander glided the powerless aircraft to a safe landing.
I agree
You spoiled it for me🤧
It is a great story, flying approximately 100 miles with no fuel!
Praise God 🙏
all aircraft has the ability to glide un-powered. a 737 at normal cruising altitude has a 60 mile glide ability.
Pilot: I'm going to do this glider slide slip to slow us down and lose altitude.
Co-Pilot: Have you ever done the glider slide slip in a jet?
Pilot: No.
Co-Pilot: But you've done it in a glider, right?
Pilot: ...
Co-Pilot: Right???
Brilliant flying!
Cheesecake
@@Communist_Aviation shut up
Pearson, Sullivan and Sullenberger I would say are three of the best pilots ever.
Add Al Haynes and his crew (plus Denny Fitch) of Flight 232 to your list.
I'll add Peter Burkill and John Coward (don't be fooled by his surname), too. They saved everyone on board his 777, even though the plane was completely destroyed during emergency landing.
captain moody too.
saved everyone with 4 fucked engines and couldn't see out the windshield cuz it was damaged
The idea of both engines shutting down terrifies me. These pilots did what they needed to do even though they weren't trained to do so. That's a true pilot right there. :)
I agree, though at the time, it was mentioned that Captain Pearson, who was the commander, had gliding experience before becoming an airline pilot.
I keep thinking that without the engines how quiet it would have been on the Gimli Glider.
@@dalydegagne1839 And First Officer Quintal had trained with the RCAF at Gimli, which helped.
@dalydegagne1839 Having flown in gliders as a child, I can tell you there's not much sound until you touch down.
I can also tell there is nothing on this earth like looking out along the wing at an eagle who's riding the same thermal as you are turn his head and look back at you. It's magic.
I have never heard of this amazing landing from both the flight staff and passenger experience. Truly amazing what the pilot and co-pilot were able to do to keep the airplane aloft far enough to reach a landing strip. Without fatalities or any serious injuries.
Cudos to the whole flight staff - pilot, co-pilot, flight attendants. All of you remained so professional and assisted all passengers through the "panic" flight and landing.
Well done on all of you!!
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Gimli Glider
The aircraft remained in service until it's proper retirement in 2008, and now sits in an aviation graveyard in the Mojave Desert in California
Indeed
it should have been flown back to Gimli and left there. even if gutted and just the metal shell. it should have gotten to go home.
(yes i know the logistics of this makes it silly. but it still would have been nice.)
Personally I think it should have been donated to a museum rather than left in a graveyard.
@@katiekottman95 I actually shocked it isn't a museum, but it's also a very large aircraft!
@@Missmori It’s a piece of real history- A very important part of history.
That no doubt is the most impressive landing that I've ever heard of.
Definitely. He was the exact right pilot to be in that situation.
My heart was racing watching this.
On a par with the Hudson River landing.
When the narrator said, "The runway he trained at 15 years ago..., is no longer a runway", I said "WAIT WHAT?!"
The Ram Air Turbine is actually about 24 inches in diameter. On newer planes if the RAT fails there is usually an inverter from the batteries to run the flight computers for about 10 minuets.
A crowning irony, if one would call it that: An AC service truck sent from Winnipeg ran out of gas on its way to Gimli!
...unfortunately, C-GAUN didn't survive past this episode's airing.
The Gimli Glider was scrapped in 2014; a company made about 10000 luggage tags from the fuselage skin, and a memorial/museum was opened in Gimli (2017).
This was one of my favorite air diesters
A pilot Tokyo drifted a 767 onto a drag strip? Lol
Yup, it's called a slip. It's used to decrease altitude quickly or counteract a crosswind.
He Must’ve Trained with Han
What an amazing flight this was! I've got to go back and look, but the episode I watched before this seemed to end abruptly, but this one didn't, so I got to see the whole thing. This flight crew got everyone safely on the ground and I'm so thankful for that. I knew the plane landed safely, but still was hanging onto the edge of my seat!
Praise God for this pilot 🙏❤️. A true hero. Canadians are a tough breed
Great job guys. I've experienced landing no engine in a 172 Cessna.
There plenty of time to relax after you've done your job of getting on the ground. And clean out your shorts! Shallow s turns & slip to landing was all he had options for. He chose the best option considering altitude, airspeed,and distance. We used to call that "eyeballing it" The training he recieved in gliders paid off in spades ♠️. Regardless of type that "look" out the windscreen is the same. Great pilot, I would fly anywhere with a man like this. I retired after 26 years as a commercial pilot. The patience and perseverance to work thru the problems as a team cannot be discounted. CRM (Cockpit Resource Management was introduced not long after this. Its a division of workspace environment that specify which pilot does specicfic tasks designed to compliment each other . The first officer provided critical data without which could have resulted in a much worse, or catastrophic outcome. Thanks for a great video 📹 👍
Pilots are amazing people. You're responsible for so much yet you guys always keep cool heads.
Thank you for your service! ✈️👨✈️
They didn't mention that the pilots and maintenance crew were initially punished for allowing the incident to occur, Captain was demoted and suspended while the FO was only suspended. Of course they did win their appeal :D
Why would they demote the Capt when he saved all those lives??? That's BS!
@trawlins396 you're supposed to verify the fuel. Boeing pays a lot of money to ensure if blame can be diverted the divert you undue responsibility.
They did mention that the pilots were blamed initially
One of my favorite episodes ever. The side slip was awesome.
Not a "side slip". When you are flying sideways like that, it's a "forward slip". It feels really unnatural, but cool. Mad skills this guy had!
Absolutely fantastic pilots so calm and landed that monster like a glider just brilliant 👏 🙏
" Holy Sh2t! they are all going to die!!"
" Ahh Winnipeg, your mike is open."
Very good job fellows!!
Rather than fall from the skies, the commander glided the powerless aircraft to a safe landing.🥇🇺🇸
When you use a direct quote from an earlier comment it's generally good form to use quotation marks and name the writer.
I could watch this 100 times. Studs!!❤❤❤
I agree and why the pilots were cited as being responsible, makes me mad.
It is very interesting that someone who has been around that area and lives in Winnipeg, it makes it much more fascinating, to have that local connection!
39:14 Oscar worthy performance by the fuel man.
The infamous metric conversion mix up....geez...
The same mistake has ended so many other endeavors in failure. Just look at what it caused NASA.
I love the metric system. It should be worldwide.
@@trawlins396 it is pretty much worldwide.
Except for U.S.@@sylvainprevost763
...well, I guess I'll slip it...this pilot was amazing, he flew it without all the bells and whistles....the gimli glider is a legend I'll fly with him and I hate to fly...
Thank God he knew how to handle a plane in it's most basic form.
I'm proud to say that I own a piece of that plane
How?
@@trawlins396 They eventually sold the plane for scrap at the end of it's service life. This company sold key chains made from the skin. Mine came from the vertical stabilizer.
"Plane Tags" was the name.
This is my favorite. This pilot is awesome. Maaad skills! Jet liner slip is incredible.
I like how they all came together and worked.
I absolutely love this episode 💯💯❤
Pure excellence and professionalism from the Captain and the FO. However I don't think it's helpful to initially tell ATC that there was a problem without explaining what the problem was. Surely ATC should know from the onset?
Bob Pearson did a great job of landing what seemed to be a doomed plane. 👏🏾 Good job Captain Pearson. You were not at fault for the lack of fuel. You did what was seemingly impossible. That makes you a hero in my mind. 👍🏽
Let's not forget First Officer Quintal, who years earlier had trained with the RCAF at Gimli and figured 143 had a better chance of making it there than to YWG.
I’ve just watched this episode & have to say that the captain was absolutely brilliant in his extremely difficult & very dangerous role in directing this plane that lost its engines & went sideways in the effort to land in Gimli MB! Congrats to you both! Believe it or not you 2 in the cabin literally had invisible angels guiding the you all the way to your literal stop without killing a soul or a soul on the ground that wasn’t aware that you’d be gliding into their path! I was actually grabbing my hair tightly hoping that it’d really work out okay for all involved! Better praise the Lord Jesus Christ for your safe arrival cause they’re invisible angels that can literally be told by the Creator to step in & intervene in a way that nobody on the flight ✈️ would be aware of! 🙏Thank you Jesus Christ for your help & sending your Holy Angels to literally STOP ✋this plane from injuring or killing a single person/soul! Wheww!
I guess your Lord Jesus Christ was just too busy to save the other thousands of people that died in plane crashes over the years. Next time you talk to him maybe you can ask him what he was doing on 9/11/2001.
God had to have placed that crew on that plane, Gimley was closer, and the car races were over.
Speaking of horns, one saved us as our yacht sank at sea with no radio.
I remember this actor in the Canadian TV series North of 60
Bravo to the caption and crew!!.
Great video on this amazing story!!
This was absolutely the next level of piloting.
I understand that both pilots SHOULD have known how to calculate the fuel. *BUT* bc neither of them had received *ANY* training on it…I think it was *unfair* that they received *ANY* blame. Especially considering they did the impossible by landing the plane *not only* in one piece but with *so little damage* the plane was rapidly repaired & back in the sky! Other pilots like the one who landed on the Hudson River were awarded metals & awards for their landings. I *TRULY* feel this flight crew & *especially* the pilot who performed the slip maneuver never done in a major airliner *absolutely SHOULD* have been given awards & praised! Not assigned blame! The blame lay with the maintenance crew not having important parts, the fuel crew for not manually checking fuel levels if they were unsure of their math & *MOST OF ALL* with the airline for not training the fuel crew & pilots the new equations needed! Pilots were & still are absolute heroes! Maybe if there had been 200 passengers rather than less than 90 they would’ve been praised more. As I’ve noticed it’s the pilots of plane crashes with larger numbers of passengers who seem to get more praise. Likely due to the passengers & their families making a larger fuss praising the pilots & calling them heroes. Im glad this flight crew & especially the pilot seem to know what a miracle they achieved & that at least inside the industry were recognized as heroes.
most canadian thing is when random people come to help with the fire
This was one of the best episodes. That pilot is such a hero. I have so much respect for pilots. I hate the metric system btw. I hate how they do calculations and measurements in the UK and Canada. The US has the right idea.
Wow!
That crew got many miracles.
Thank God.
But the question is,,, how could they have not trained on the NEW plane; from the mechanics; the pilots; and that malfunctioning processor that was just left..... so essentially they all played Russian roulette and didn’t die.
So troubling that humans never learn.
Same thing years later w the latest Boeing plane that was rushed and many died from those crashes.
God was at work saving these particular people; and even the little boys and others there.
Because the nose gear failed,,, they lived, too.
Just amazing.
This one made me cry.
God is imaginary
Largely because the moment profit is involved (which is the core of any airline), then unless its mandated, companies will skimp on the training as much as humanly possible.
The trucks have to weigh in at weigh scales they could have scales on taxi ways. Or even better just put scales on the landing. Gear struts legs that way the pilots could get a read out on the weight on each landing wheel also confirm the cg of the plane by the weight on the nose wheel very easy to do
@@power2084 I wish you were imaginary.
@@power2084 how shocking. A hateful atheist.
I fly Cessna 150-s and 172s
Side slips are not easy, rudder aileron inputs are critical.
These guys did an amazing getting this huge aircraft on the ground.
These pilots and other crew are heroes. Got a give credit to the passengers as well. Gutsy bunch on this flight. Kudos
Real Heroes are the Traffic controller and the Captain. Salute.
Excellent pilot effort and skills
The Pilots are true heroes! But we should also commend the maintainence engineer who was right on the money when he suggested they were low on fuel and how the pilots asked for his opinions on the issue.
It’s extremely frightening to see the plane ✈️ doing a sideways dive, or whatever it’s called. That’d probably stop me from ever flying again! But did they ever do a phenomenal job!!!
What a legendary crew!
Petition to add horns on planes
This air traffic controller and both pilots are super heroes
So glad for great pilots
I love how the captain is being brave but deep inside I have a feeling he is very nervous and scared
8:50 The announcement is taken word for word from Air Canada's procedures. Now I forgive them for using the 1990s logo on the seatback covers (although it's 1983).
Those pilots are amazing... Wow...
That's quite scary to run Ohhh-T of fuel man !
From my point of view this was a much more difficult Lansing then Sally over there in the Hudson
Landing on water is much difficult.
When it landed like 3 seconds before it looked like a game where its super sensitive
Indeed Captain Robert Pearson was an aviation hero like Chesley Sullenberger.
Amazing pilot and Crew!
My husband was a private pilot. He loved doing side slips whenever he could.
Whenever I was sitting next to him, we’d come in high above the airport but he’d level out right at the end and we’d still land near the close end of the runway.
who the fck cares. He’s still a nobody
There was a movie made about this story. It was called Free Fall, I think. This was an unbelievable event about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, life from the grasp of death.
True hero! God bless this pilot!
What an absolute legend
best episode ever!!
Very good piloting, great to see.
good job BOB Peason
I love this episode.
Those two drinks could save his life. They call it Dutch courage.
1 of 3 airliners to glide, Tala 737 , airframe & this one
The pilot is truly what I would call a gift from God. He knew what situation he was in, he knew the consequences of no fuel and though it was not his fault he accepted the responsibility of taking all the people on board to safety. Words cannot express such actions. God bless you.
Wow. This pilot and Sully saved their planes using their glider experience.
It's like they say - any landing you can walk away from is a good landing and if you can fly the plane again it's a great landing - this was a great landing
Great pilots landing safely
A really great pilot takes enough fuel to get to the destination
Simple weight transducers on each wheel strut the pilot can tell the precise weight on each wheel
God love Bob Pierson. Absolutely Sophisticated Airman. ✈🌿✈
Intrepid little plane that still is in service, woah!
4:05 Ah yes, a Boeing 767
For all of you rooting for Boeing, remember that there's plenty of roots upon landing.
Fascinating story, but whenever I watch this I dread coming to the end. It’s like, I just want to watch TH-cam, not have to do math.