From: John_Beamish{at}dmr.ca (John Beamish)

The Gimli Glider.

http://home.stlnet.com/~n0waz/fltsim/falling.html

http://www.faa.gov/fsdo/fll/news6.htm

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:13:29 -0500, "Richard Hong"
 wrote:

>About 20 years ago there was an incident (I think in Canada?) where the
>pilot landed the plane by gliding it.  This was the famous one where the
>plane ran out of gas because the fuel was added as liters rather than
>gallons (oops!)  The weird bit of luck in that case was that the pilot flew
>gliders as a hobby, and the co-pilot knew about an abandoned military
>airfield in the area.  That combination of knowledge saved their lives.

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