The Boeing 767 Glider

Started by TehBorken, Nov 13 07 05:34

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TehBorken

Man, talk about having a crappy day.....
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The first fuel pump on the Boeing 767 went out. Then all the fuel pumps went out. Then one of the engines stopped. Then the other engine failed. Oh dear, what to do, what to do? Time to look in look in the "E-Book", also known as "The Big Book Of Failures", an emergency manual carried aboard the Boeing aircraft that details all sorts of emergency situations and how to deal with them. The crew looked up "unpowered landing", but.... [blockquote][em]Much to their dismay, no such section existed, presumably because a simultaneous engine failure had been too ridiculous for Boeing engineers to contemplate.
 [/em][/p][/blockquote] This really happened, in Canada in 1983. Find out how the story ended at [a  href="vny!://www.damninteresting.com/?p=744"]Damn Interesting[/a]. [/p]  
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Russ

That was a great read TB... thanks!
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