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C-GAUN seen here on February 17, 1985 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.
Photographs of the test were later involved in a hoax, which supposedly showed an Air Canada Boeing 747 with its back half exploding on landing. The photo was, however, an edit of an Air Canada Boeing 747 landing normally with the photo of the explosion test stitched onto the back of the aircraft. [3]
Aircraft aborted first landing attempt due to possible landing-gear failure. Pilot focused on landing gear problem, neglected crew's warning of lack of fuel. Plane ran out of fuel, glided several miles before crashing within 10 miles of airport. 10: 189 12 April 1979 Aeroflot Flight 3582: Tupolev Tu-154B Chimkent, Kazakhstan
The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, MSN 47196, originally registered as CF-TLU, that was manufactured in 1968 and was delivered to Air Canada on April 7. . It had logged 36825 airframe hours and 34987 takeoff and landing cycles and was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B engin
December 24, 2006 - Lion Air Flight 792, a Boeing 737-400 operated by Lion Air lands hard causing the landing gear to collapse. Everyone survives. Everyone survives. January 1, 2007 - Adam Air Flight 574 , a Boeing 737-4Q8 operated by Adam Air breaks up in mid-air and crashes into the sea due to pilot error, killing all 102 on board.
An Air Canada flight was caught on video making a hard landing at Toronto Pearson Airport in Ontario, Canada on Monday evening as gusty crosswinds battered the runway.. Flight AC2 arriving from ...
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Boeing 747: Corrosion in pylon fuse pin leading to metal fatigue 4 on board, 39 on ground Engine No.3 separated from its pylon which caused the adjacent engine No.4 to also fall off, taking the slats with them; stall and crash on attempted landing 1996-07-17 TWA Flight 800: Moriches Inlet, near East Moriches, New York Boeing 747: Fuel tank ...