Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
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Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
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Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
#2About a near crash in 2001, you might have heard, the longest glide by commercial aircraft after fuel runs out. 32 min read for the whole story.
Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
#3About a near crash in 2001, you might have heard, the longest glide by commercial aircraft after fuel runs out. 32 min read for the whole story.
What I also loved was that the Captain had once been arrested for marijuana trafficking with his airplane. Total bad ass.
Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
#4About a near crash in 2001, you might have heard, the longest glide by commercial aircraft after fuel runs out. 32 min read for the whole story.
What is it about Canadian commercial jets having to glide to a landing after running out of fuel?
Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
#5Against my own inclination to never watch YouTube, I've become a bit obsessed with this one fellow who does excellent reconstructions and analyses of aviation incidents. He covers this one here:
Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
#6Against my own inclination to never watch YouTube, I've become a bit obsessed with this one fellow who does excellent reconstructions and analyses of aviation incidents. He covers this one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9becqrhsedE
What's good about Mentour Pilot is he reads and interprets the NTSB reports and the reports from other relevant agencies, and also adds what his own experience as a 737 pilot tells him.
I've often found that means his reports conflict in various ways regarding either what happened, or what caused what happened, with what is found in so many other reconstructions, many of which seem to goes as deep as a Wikipedia article and not a whole lot further.
I find he provides a ton of insight then...
Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
#7About a near crash in 2001, you might have heard, the longest glide by commercial aircraft after fuel runs out. 32 min read for the whole story.
What I also loved was that the Captain had once been arrested for marijuana trafficking with his airplane. Total bad ass.
Was visualizing the cabin during that last 360 circle, followed by the "slew" maneuver, must have been surreal.
Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
#8Against my own inclination to never watch YouTube, I've become a bit obsessed with this one fellow who does excellent reconstructions and analyses of aviation incidents. He covers this one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9becqrhsedE
Seems a bit weird to say "never watch youtube". It's like never reading a book anymore because someone gave you a bad one. It's up to you to filter out content you dislike, just like with everything else.
Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
#9Interesting that they call Lajes a “military airfield”. On the Azorean island of Terceira, Lajes (TER) is a mixed use airfield that is the commercial landing strip of the island since the 1930s, as well as having a multi-national military base on the other side since the 1940s. There is a picture in the story.
The NTSB report called it a military airbase, and other reports say “Military air traffic controllers guided the aircraft”. Civilian aircraft can use the military side with a permit.
Plenty more info on the air field at https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Lajes_Field
Lajes’s other claim to fame is that Bush and Blair met there just days before the Iraq invasion to hammer out whatever deal they thought had to be dealt.
The tale of the stricken aircraft was fascinating. I’ve always wondered, over the decades as I’ve flown slight doglegs over Earth’s oceans, if the strategy to route over remote airfields in case of emergency has ever had a “cost” estimated. How many hours and gallons of fuel has been spent for this safety blanket? The infrastructural insurance spent to prevent lives lost in air travel appears to be much higher than lives on road travel. Could it be that the insurance is for the aircraft, not the lives? Hmm.
The island, and the others of the Azores, are a wonderful place to visit by the way.
Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236
#10See also: the “Gimli glider” incident from the 1980s.