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The Boeing 767
On the 23th July 1983, a Boeing 767 of the airline company Air Canada connected Montreal to Edmonton. It was 13 000 meters high above the meadows of Manitoba when the pilot Robert O. Pearson noticed that an indicator of alarm flickered, meaning that one of the fuel tanks was empty. A few seconds later, one of the engines of the plane stopped and it was quickly the turn of the second engine. The Boeing 767 planed...... Fortunately, the copilot Marcel Quintal, remembered that there was to a hundred kilometers, close to Gimli, an abandoned military track. Pearson, the pilot, succeed in controlling the plane and reduced it during about fifteen minutes to approach the track. The plane lands with a speed of 340 km/h instead of the 240 km/h usual but being immobilized at the end of the track. The 61 passengers, prepared well by the crew, were practically not wounded. |