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AC759 mistakenly lined up to land on Taxiway C, shown with the dotted blue line, instead of Runway 28R, shown with the dashed white line, before being ordered to abort the landing. At 11:46 p.m. local time, Air Canada Flight 759, carrying 135 passengers and 5 crew members, [4] was cleared to land on Runway 28R.
C-GAUN from another angle. Air Canada Flight 143, commonly known as the Gimli Glider, was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on Saturday, July 23, 1983, [1] at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,500 m), midway through the flight.
On August 24, 2001, he was captain of the Airbus A330 flying Air Transat Flight 236 and managed to land the aircraft safely in the Azores after it lost all power due to fuel exhaustion. As of February 2025, this remains a record glide length for a commercial aircraft in non-powered flight. Piché and his co-pilot were later assigned partial ...
Air Transat Flight 236 was a transatlantic flight bound for Lisbon, Portugal, from Toronto, Canada, that lost all engine power while flying over the Atlantic Ocean on August 24, 2001. The Airbus A330 ran out of fuel because of a fuel leak caused by improper maintenance.
An Air Canada Express flight “experienced a suspected landing gear issue” after arriving at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Nova Scotia on Saturday night, though no injuries were ...
Passengers on the flight from Tokyo endured a bumpy arrival in Toronto
All three engines failed at altitudes of 700, 300, and 6 m, respectively; crew managed to land aircraft safely. 0 30 12 July 2000 Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378: Airbus A310-304 Vienna, Austria: Fuel exhaustion as result of landing gear failure to retract Glided for about 20 km (12 mi) before crash landing 500 metres (1,600 ft) short of runway. 0: 150
An Air Canada plane caught fire during a crash-landing in Nova Scotia this weekend. On Saturday, Dec. 28, around 9:30 p.m. local time, Air Canada Express Flight 2259 skidded down a runway at the ...