Anders Gidenstam wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Jon Elson wrote: > >> Sid Boyce wrote: >>> There was a 757 over Canada that lost both engines (source Reader's >>> Digest in my doctor's office some years ago) >> The famous "Gimli Glider", and there are far better reports, >> such as one from Air and Space, I think. > > IIRC the Wikipedia entry was reasonable and also has links to further > material: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider > > Cheers, > > Anders
Regarding similar incidents, yesterday BBC interviewed the pilot of a 747 that flew into volcanic ash over Indonesia and had all 4 engines die. He said it was at night and he was up at 37,000 feet with a good glide to an airport landing. Apart from the ash embedded in the windscreen that made for bad forward visibility, the rest was uneventful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9 Searching on google, there have been many such incidents. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
