History's A Disaster

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Send us Fan Mail A wide-body jet goes quiet at 41,000 feet, the cockpit starts losing systems, and the crew has to fly a Boeing 767 like a glider with no engines. That sounds impossible until you trace the real-world chain behind Air Canada Flight 143, the incident aviation history now calls the Gimli Glider. We walk through how a routine day turns into a high-stakes emergency when a faulty Fuel Q…

Send us Fan Mail A wide-body jet goes quiet at 41,000 feet, the cockpit sta…

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