Hi Poul: Yes, that's the 747 that ran out of gas at 41,000 feet due to an error in converting liters of JP4 to pounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider and it was not the only time this happened:
Similar incidents In 2001, in a similar incident involving a Canadian airline, Air Transat Flight 236 made an emergency landing in the Azores without fuel. In 2000, Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378 landed in a powerless glide 500 meters short of the runway in Vienna, Austria, with all aboard surviving. Have Fun, Brooke w/Java http://www.PRC68.com w/o Java http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/PRC68COM.shtml http://www.precisionclock.com Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brooke Clarke writes: > >>Hi: >> >>There was a recent incident when a passenger aircraft (maybe Canada) had >>to make an emergency landing because of a wrong metric - English >>conversion resulted in not enough fuel to get to the destination. > > > Not recent, but famous: The Gimli Glider. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
