Here’s an incident with a happy ending.
A charter flight, a 767 with over 300 souls on board (a couple weeks before 9/11), Toronto to Lisbon Portugal. They get a fuel leak over the Atlantic, and eventually lose all engines. With no engines, the power goes out (there’s an auxiliary power source that provides limited electricity for the cockpit). The passengers hear the engines go silent and then the lights flicker and go out with nothing but ocean below. Sheer terror.
The pilots figure they need to ditch it in the ocean. Good luck surviving that.
But...there’s some hope. The Azores might be close enough, and it has a big beautiful runway. But no one has ever been able to glide a wide body with no engines that far before.
The pilot did it though. With most control gone, they came in fast and landed hard. They of course had no reverse thrust. The tires blew out from the landing. Eventually the plan stopped. A miracle.
The pilot showed great skill and nerves of steel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
A charter flight, a 767 with over 300 souls on board (a couple weeks before 9/11), Toronto to Lisbon Portugal. They get a fuel leak over the Atlantic, and eventually lose all engines. With no engines, the power goes out (there’s an auxiliary power source that provides limited electricity for the cockpit). The passengers hear the engines go silent and then the lights flicker and go out with nothing but ocean below. Sheer terror.
The pilots figure they need to ditch it in the ocean. Good luck surviving that.
But...there’s some hope. The Azores might be close enough, and it has a big beautiful runway. But no one has ever been able to glide a wide body with no engines that far before.
The pilot did it though. With most control gone, they came in fast and landed hard. They of course had no reverse thrust. The tires blew out from the landing. Eventually the plan stopped. A miracle.
The pilot showed great skill and nerves of steel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
Take care of those titties for me.