All Engines-out Landing Due to Fuel Exhaustion - Air Transat, 24 August2001

"Calif Bill"
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"Bertie the Bunyip" XZXZ@XZXZ.,XZXZX wrote in message
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"Colin W Kingsbury"
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"No Spam" wrote in message newsgsZd.4290

All pilots train to make such "dead stick" landings as
a routine part of training, in any type of airplane.


Perhaps now they do. If you read the detailed accounts of the
"Gimli Glider" episode when an Air Canada 767 lost both engines to
fuel starvation, the pilot clearly states that their training did
*not* account for the possibility.

Well I had done deadstick landings in the sim looong before that
happened. And that wasn't the first deadstick jet either.



Bertie

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I think all the commercial passenger jets have a better glide angle
than the normal glide slope of landing. DC-10 lost all engines off
Florida a few years ago, and landed safely. Mechanic had left the
o-rings off the oil plugs for all the engines.


They had restrated one engine. They'd done a precautinary shutdown on one
engine when they lost pressure onit and restarted it when the other two
failed. It was a TriStar, BTW. They wouldn't have made it back gliding.
and the glide is about 17/1 with engines windmilling on a modern high
bypass fan aircraft.


Bertie

Bertie

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