An Airplane Ran Out of Fuel at 41,000 Feet. Here's What Happened Next 

Yeah I had to listen to that part again to make sure he did actually swear. XD

@@Nicha4ever I have realised since the turn of the year, he has cursed a few times unlike before where it didnt at all. It is intriguing as I am not used to it but it will grow on me for sure

There’s a lot of swearing in his old videos

Can you give me timestamp?

@@spectraphantom9433 0:40

Landed inverted

"He trained as a glider pilot". *Shows footage of a warbird.*

The Corps of Discovery I couldn't stop laughing 😂

667 likes

*Do a Barrel Roll!*

imagine messing up your pre-flight checks and almost killing 60 people...

Imagine all the people, running out of gas Yooouu ooooh

They sent Denzel to jail for it!

@@seandenby2304 Actually, Pearson literally did everything in his power to NOT make that mistake. The ground team were the ones who fucked up the conversion right, and get this: Pearson DOUBLE CHECKED the conversion himself personally...but since the incorrect conversion rate value given by Canada Air corporate was the same, he arrived at the same fuel amount as the ground team. This combined with the faulty fuel sensor, that again, the ground technicians provided meant that it was borderline impossible for this guy to have predicted + averted the entire clusterfuck. Tl;dr - the man is a god damn hero and I'd slob his knob anyday

ishmaboy couldve kept that last sentence in your head

Then they said sorry.

That's Canada

It's Canada dude.

Canada, where terrorists get 10 million dollar payoffs.

@@Censoredbyfscists you've never heard how much the fbi has awarded to terrorists for information huh?

r/technicallythetruth

You beat me to it FUCK

Jack Rabbit fax

@@KynanTegar r/ihavereddit

@@youcanonlypretend r/iactuallydontijustwantedlikes

We never know

Any landing everyone can walk away from is a win, especially when it's a commercial airliner with no fuel. Similar thing happened years later to an Air Transat flight crossing the Atlantic, I think on a flight from Toronto to Lisbon. Rain out of fuel mid way through, in this case due to a major fuel leak from improper maintenanc , and had to land on a US air force base on the Azores islands.

We know tay-k didnt

@@Seriously_Unserious what does that have to do with the race?

GD Slasher3000 yes

Pigeon 😂😂😂

new challenger approaching

Plane: *RACE ME BITCH!*

Imagine how awesome this race show was....You got to witness a miracle landing with no extra charge 🤣

“With a fast bowing 747, number 143 is coming in to *Kill* the competition, like no seriously FUCKING RUN!”

Ok

Ok

Ok

Ok

Ok

It was 1984 dumbass

jerry metcalf r/whooosh

How brainless this video is to blame front line personnel for improperly converting between the systems. REALITY is that such conversion wouldn't have been necessary if the airline wasn't stupid enough to use different measuring systems on different aircraft. They simply did that to cut corners and save some money at the risk of a disaster. But the people at the bottom always get the blame, right ?

@@JosephKulik2016 you don't get it, they tell the guy how much fuel to put in, he had one fuckung job, put the required amount of fuel in the aircraft, he was so fucking stupid he didn't know 2.2 pounds of fuel was one kilogram, this accident damn sure was his fault

No, they would have crashed. Didn't you see the mistake in math posted by Brilliant?? 10/10+10X10 does not equal 101. It equals 110.....

Because feet is the unit used for aviation all around the world (except in 2 countries)

bruh he wrote titie

OMG first comment to reach 100 likes thank you very much

@@eastpavilion-er6081 Good JOb1

Tiddies

“Mind if I join?”

Brady Glinski “I had an interesting day today honey.”

How ‘ya doing, Papa Louie?

No, no... Imagine you're DRIVING in a car race and suddenly, in your rear view mirror, you see a freaking plane landing.

How bout the entire world use one scale of measuring liquids and solids and distance and problem solved just a thought

in fact there was a computer curcuit board on board that was fried , and because the plane was so new , they didnt have a spare one , that fried board was indeed related to the fuel gauge system and was determind by maintenence that it wasnt significant enough or effect the operation of the plane to hold the flight back .

Taikamuna What’s the most dominos you’ve ever used in a video?

WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE

Bean sauce

@@lwinklly barbecue banana

Taikamuna freedom units only!

About 60 lives, but to be real, while what they did was amazing, if they had've just paid attention to their checklist, it never would've happened in the first place.

@@gst013 far more than 60 - he could’ve rammed into the hundreds of people in the crowd at the race track.

​@@gst013 How About The Crowd in the Race track? you forgot about them? if the pilot fail to land the plane The enitre People on the track race and the plane Will Die

@@nachoboi_ yeah but for that to happen they'd have to get to the racetrack witch wasn't certain.

@@gst013 As they say, Hindsight is 20/20.

ikr hate it

Oh yeah I used to be on my Cyka-Nuker but some crazy Americans came and stole it (Btw I love your comments keep it up)

Inb4 50k likes for just being recognized

Only 18 likes, boi we are early this time. : p

*JUSTIN Y!!! WHEN WILL YOU STOP THIS MADNESS!?!?!*

Fuck you

@@slyceth lol triggered

@@slyceth chill out dude.

@@slyceth lmao what did they ever do to you

You should check these guys out, the make quality videos.

Actual fun fact: "An amusing side-note to the Gimli story is that after Flight 143 had landed safely, a group of Air Canada mechanics were dispatched to drive down and begin effecting repair. They piled into a van with all their tools. They reportedly ran out of fuel en-route, finding themselves stranded somewhere in the backwoods of Manitoba."

Guess what? I'm a fuel worker in the US Air Force. If theres a time where the plane cuts me off a ways before I was told to expect it, I always check and make sure they got what they really need. Multiple people have to screw up to make this event happen, and I can't believe not one of them was like "wait hold on!"

@@User31129 I'm just assuming here, but I think back in the day they didn't have the strict protocols we use today, probably events like this is why so many precautions are used today. Btw thx for saying that you would do that at work. It feels safer knowing people like you exist.

Personally I blame THE Metric System... ;)

@@veng3r663 there's a reason why you don't get likes right now

True. They should have switched 200 years before like the last barbaric tribes did. Oh ... there might be a couple left.

​@@razvanvaleanu3971 It is more logical to argue that those using the metric system are barbarians, since they haven't been to the moon

@@nick21614 / Following your logic who goes to the Moon sets the standard. It appears to be the contrary.

@@razvanvaleanu3971 Original barbarians were those that did not speak Greek or Latin, the advanced societies. So logically speaking the advanced society (USA), sets the standard. Guess what Air Canada still uses feet and so does most of the world. Enjoy!

@@nick21614 / Having the biggest economy does not make the US an advanced society. The American society in itself is actually quite left behind by in the western world standards: deeply religious, death penalty, gun laws from the 1700's to name few. The only reason why is still used in aviation is because the prevalence of US-built planes after WWII. It's impossible to change overnight aviation instruments, maps and charts, reference material, pilot training books to name few. NASA however has been slowly shifting to metric.

First time I’ve ever heard this guy curse

I didn't even realize he swore

@@Chikkitiger35 me neither haha

True

can i get a shoutout

@Orion69North Wrong. The Earth isn't flat. It's a bowl. Duh.

they kind of merge into one channel in my mind

Arcade Gannon The earth is round but the moon is flat.

@Crebs Park stfu

Toyota Corolla.

@@imrannajmi12 Mitsubishi Eclipse

@@5starview Twilight Lamborghini

It's also not an educational video without a ridiculously long mention of the sponsor.

Evariste Galois This channel is famous for Toyota Corolla's dude

Deja vu I've just been in this place before Higher on the street And I know it's my time to go Calling you and the search is mystery

@@darraghtate440 hell yeah kansei dorifto!!

Cool

sideslip*

For people who dont understand its basically drifting planes in the air

Jokes are never too soon!

Alvin Vivian oh shit

oh no!

Welp, time to fly empty! _No, seriously._

Bruh this video was uploaded 1 year ago

Every test in a simulator afterward, all crashed. What works in theory doesn't always work in practice, and what doesn't work in theory may work in practice. Could be the simulator isn't perfect either. Of course, going into the simulator you knew the situation and what you were trying to do, and you don't have the stress of trying to save your own life and the lives of everybody on board.

What is a forward slip? What is a huge forward slip? Why is the fact that there’s no engine power matter? (Might be inferred from first two answers) Asking to appreciate the facts more

@@TheCho22 I'm sure I'm probably using the wrong terminology, but its when the pilot turns the rudder one way, and the flaps on the wings the other way. So the rudder is trying to pull the plane to the side, and the wings are counteracting this motion. As a result, the plane ends up travelling more on its side. Imagine sitting in a plane seat facing north. You expect the nose to be heading north and the wings east-west orientation, but in a slip the nose might be pointing north-east, the wings northwest-southwest orientation, but you're still travelling north. This procedure is done in gliders or single engine turbo-props where there body is flexible, light and not much instruments or components. It had never been done in a passenger jet, and there was no guarantee it would work, that the plane would remain airbourne, or that the wings could handle the forces and not break up. There was also no guarantee the pilots would be able to pull the plane out of this orientation in order to land. This is also why a lack of engines matter, there is no pulling out of it if things go wrong. There was also no engine power to brake with so they had to drop their speed and still have the right approach to land on the runway.

Good point barndawg77!

Goabnb94 Rudder left, ailerons right. The term you were looking for is called “crabbing”. Looking down from above, the plane faces 15-30 degrees to the left, but continues traveling straight towards the runway. It’s not usually done because it’s never needed to. It was not impressive that the plane held together, it was impressive given how unorthodox it was.

Yes!!!!!

Clickbait level 100

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*_A320 is reporting to the ER for hyperoctanemia. Hyper, meaning high. octane, meaning fuel. Emia, meaning presences in blood_*

Chubeymu - whatever his name is

amazing people*

Amazing Pilots . Save all those passengers.

@@iezza456 MENNNN not WHAMEEEENNNNNN BOOOOOOOOO

True story

Gimli glider the famous miracle of aviation history

Welcome to Canada lol

Is this scam or real

A cHoPiN fAn 100% serious, he was born in 1962 and lived in an english speaking part of montreal

@@uncanadien3272 so what happened to the pilot

A cHoPiN fAn what do you mean i’m talking about my dad

Murica

You do know where the imperial unit system comes from?

@@aliceakosota797 Murica where everyone speaks Freedom

in aviation, altitude is pretty much always measured in feet no matter where you go only exceptions are China and North Korea

PresidentFlip yeah, no

Well because the nose gear had collapsed, the entire plane stood at an angle on the runway/dragstrip, as a result the emergency slides were also at an angle. This resulted is some passengers getting some minor injuries when getting off the plane. But yeah, there were no major injuries in this incident, only minor ones.

Harshpreet Singh I was gonna say that as well

Yeah I thought it was him at first

Except all his videos are medical oriented

Yea

Yes!

Sory

Wow, ur here too?

Because it's 2016 XD You can thank Trudeau for cucking up Canada.

You're a Superintelligent AI right?

REALLY!

One job with so many steps

It's not like the way you feel your car tank!! Still they must be alert and happening!

Not any more.

I guess Peter Griffin stole it so that he can fly with his car

Technically the pilots fault for assuming command and responsibility for the aircraft. Theres a reason for "pre flight checks"

I would have liked a parental warning - kids watch these. RRL, please stop swearing or we'll have to stop watching.

@@matthewgough9533 gay

@@matthewgough9533 lmao your kids probably just called someone a bitch as you typed this

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I feel the same lol I know Wendover owns HAI, but they could also own RLL too [Also, same type of graphics]

@@MajorHurricane The voices are different

HAI and wendover is the same person with the same voice

They uploaded at the exact same time.

Hai and Wendover are the same

LMFAOOO 😂😂

I noticed too

Could be a race and the clouds are passing. Lol

They can actually. Just not that well.

how the fuck did you notice that

Cheap flight, fuck it

Fucking hilarious

No wheels because there was no electric power because the engines weren't running.

Trivago guy just got a DUI about two wewks ago bc he fell asleep on a busy Highway. Why didn't he just book a room with Trivago???? 😂😂😂😂

That's not how the format goes

Lol

Lol, I would just imagine the people fueling it up being like. "Ahhh, ok, totally understand bro, 100 corollas of fuel coming right up!"

Bad idea. we don't know how many gallons they hold.

I don't think we should put gasoline in a commercial jet

*username

Honestly bro cmon sooo nottt epiicc😂

@@BrianGoldPhd had to look up to see what channel I was on

Holy Shit

Fortnite Fantasy fuck off kid

Lol

What physics? About gravity?

@@pandupandu4203 free falling objects to be exact😂

@@dennisbrucemasayon786 🤣

Yeah side-slipping a jet airliner with limited hydraulics is no easy feat! (also this one of my favourite aircrash investigation episodes)

I agree, why did he not talk about it ? Nobody has never performed a sideslip with a jet before

Not to mention that would tie into the idea of him being an experienced glider pilot.

It never even existed in '83

skill share is so usefull, the NASA also used it to land the first man on the moon

@@PHILMKD95 /r/whooosh

LMAO son 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Boyo

Mayday is a good show

Person

@@sohibversace94 Captain Robert Pearson.

@@Alex_Guy1011 yeah makes sense now lol

Your name is totally fitting for that statement

You have won youtube

I don’t get it

I DIED LAUGHING AT THIS POINT

608 likes?! Wow, this comment really took off

Who else feels dissatisfied that he wont upload rocket league as often?

waaaaait someone recognized me?

The Void In Soviet Canada, plane fly backwards.

Physics has left the chat

@@daerdevvyl4314 yes my comrade, in mother land of hockey Communist Canada, plane fly backwards and maple syrup drink u 🇨🇦🚩🏒

Arjun R 😁

Yeah agree. The most shocking thing here is that the planes systems didn’t alert there wasn’t enough fuel onboard for the input destination of Edmonton

Lmao

I'm out of words to describe this incidence

Moto moto

Madagascar 2 Skipper: "Gently now! You just want to kiss the ground. Just a little peck. A smooch like you're kissing your sister!" *Crashes Skipper: "I said kiss it!"

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Mateo Beattie *I LIKE ‘EM BIG, I LIKE ‘EM CHUNKY-*

Man what's ur nickname m8 u a legend XD

Molemo Kgoele wow that’s true

@Coma White you know that the aircrafts fuel indicating computer was not working, don't u?

@Coma White If the guy who refilled the ac made a mistake and filled in the wrong values this won't help u ;)

@Coma White Do you need a friend?

@Coma White lol you really need a friend.

How did the video creator miss that?? That's essential to the story lol

That's what I was thinking too

meh. This has to be the 4th or 5th channel I sub to that has done this story, I'm getting quite jaded with some of these short doc channels. RealLifeLore and Wendover are still good... but some are just long Brilliant/Skillshare adverts. I've unsubbed to a few lately because they are just phoning it in.

and the pilots weren't aware?.... kind of sceptical on this point, pre flight checks, and at least one person signing off on fuel delivered, also instrument 'redundancy', still… good point well made

@@catamoul the plane and ground crew were not singing on the same hymm sheet, the aircraft back in that time were programmed with the quantity of fuel taken on board... one assumed that the groundcrew knew that the aircraft type worked in the new weight...

I was surprised at that

*Profanity 100*

If the word shit is enough to make this unfamily friendly your family get togethers must suck ass.

keriezy r/wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh

Demonetization: Allow me to introduce myself

Hahahhaha

Lol

Ba dum Tss!

Arian Teo xd

nice

Facterino Commenterino What? YAY

Facterino Commenterino FIRST

That is the most wholesome thing i have heard all week.

Like I would believe that

That’s kinda cool actually

The fuel gauges on the aircraft were not functioning. You are still permitted to fly provided you know how much fuel you have on board. They thought they knew that. The fuel fillerupper guy converted to lbs and Kilograms - the resulting number was obviously wrong.

no they do

Seb Exactly that's the *REAL* issue here in this story. They were low on fuel the whole time they were flying, and didn't even know? They should have known they were low on fuel long before the engine cut out. That's not a good enough. That's the critical failure. I hope the rules have changed since 1983. That's totally unacceptable. I wouldnt get in my car without a proper fuel Guage, let alone fly a fucking plane with 150 souls on it. Madness. Totally preventable incident here. There's no excuse for that. The conversion issue is irrelevant

@@stevencoardvenice I guess this is true, but like you I cannot see how in the heck no preflight checks, gauge scans, alarms, common sense? allowed for this to happen? Also I believe in second chances, but they f up, land not killing anyone and get an award?

They do and if it diddent they fill it before flight

well...not flying does not contribute to flying become unsafer.

Metric conversion is taught in schools not by airlines to pilots who are grandfathers!

@@Ashkenya Obviously they knew how to convert units, the problem was a misunderstanding because the airline hadnt made clear to the ground staff how the adjustment to metric would work.

they had the training...

You mean the pilots who DIDNT check HOW MUCH f****** fuel they have are the good guys? give me a break...

@@markj2093 surely something as sophisticated as a plane has a gauge to tell how much you have...so no its not just the fueling guys fault. If I hand you a mushroom and tell you it's safe to eat are going to blindly just eat it?

so basically the american measurement system almost killed 100 people

Yea same with me

So basically the metric system almost killed 100 people.

@@microdesigns2000 american*

@@octave1 Ah, trolling back I see. The imperial system that you call "american" was here long before the nouveau aristocracy taught us that the metric system is "better". No one underfilled a wing tank because of the imperial system until the switch to the metric system. So the metric system is implicated no less than the imperial system. The last SI unit will be converted to pure formula this November, the kilogram. That will be the last day us peons will be able to measure a kilogram properly. Then, only the rich and powerful will be able to afford the instrumentation and skills required to properly measure a kilogram. An so the avoir-du -pois system will also be tied to this venerable and great aristocracy of liberalism of the rich and elite of Europe, just like the old days, when the foot of their kings was the unit of measure. Almost nothing in nature is evenly divisible by 10, a number only made convenient by the fingers on our hands rather than by anything we do with them. Please, the metric system is no better than base-12 or base-60, and it is also completely useless and annoying in computer science, where base-2 rules for the foreseeable future. The tanks on this airplane should have been filled with both units of measure until their industry was completely and thoroughly converted.

its 60 degrees out-side, do I need a sweeter or am i going to fry like an egg??

And we continue to yell "Inches, Feet, Yards and Miles! Ounces, Pounds, Pints, Quarts and Gallons! 'Merica, bitches!

Fuck off Commiecrat

@@rogerwilco1777 neither one Dumbfuck

There are two kinds of countries in the world. Those that use the metric system and those that walked on the moon.

oooo

See they didn’t mention the side slip. My friend who used to glide at Gimli said it’s named the “gimli glider” and he called the side slip crabbing. I always remember that term lol

Except for takumi

In this *Plane* before :^)

lol

I went into a taxi whifh was a toyota but not a toyota corolla

Geo Prism

🤣

You mean a Volvo

Dash Gamer 2 No MoNeTiZaTiOn

Don’t fucking say such dog shit about my favorite bitch

Lol I noticed too. 😂😂😂

Agreed

Nuke the SHIT out of the ground.

Physics

Will they fucked it up in the first place

@@aliheikal2805... You have a point

@@aliheikal2805 yeah...they should have noticed the small amount of fuel.

Meth

Aidan Adkins They do if you have eyes and brains enough to pay attention

The FQIS on board the plane was inoperative at the time. The only low fuel warning you can utilize is the low pressure warning light on the two fuel pumps.

This also happened in 1983 and flight instruments weren’t very good. Lol

@@Matikz007 The 767 is a modern aircraft with a glass cockpit. It has very good instrumentation.

@@vhanlouiebulanadi1159 oh the FQ..... WTF???! Are you saying they were flying without a working gas gage???

Looks at fuel gage before taking off “Hey, this plane isn’t full!” “Get your asses back over here and finish filling this plane!”

Probably because of comments like these. PROBABLY, IDK!

You need fuel equivalent to 3000 full tank Toyota Corolla s😂

The Automaticist ahahahaha

Nobody got hurt and landed plane safely apparently he was on the right track

Yeah and it drifted.

Real question: Did anybody film it?

This made me die but I can't like it because it's in 69

(Déjà Vu intensifies)

"here we go" DEJA VU I've just been in this place before...

no cursing in my christian household

It's at 0:43 you munchkin.

@@nickolascrousillat4265 munchkin?🤣🤣🤣

@@nickolascrousillat4265 dumbass*

Nick August It’s at 0:44 you doughnut.

look at his older videos

@@wen5942 I should've sed first time heard

@Saif Ullah Khan *Where's my dad?

@Saif Ullah Khan calm down i dont hav to be always formal

@@Riz_69 i like that

Why? Its a common slang in my country...

It's weird that he said it in an educational video, with a SPONSOR

@@TheTaleOfRex I know, right? he even did it in his video about nuking the Sahara desert...

Solar Master ikr

Command_Unit Where are you from?

61 people*

He shouldve never have to save them

@@JordanMSeverns including the people on the ground

@@wahabartwork2487 there's no given number of people at the race so you're being ridiculous by assuming hundreds

Pilots overlooked pre flight checklist and almost killed hundreds.

Also at no point in the video was the phrase "Gimli Glider" used which is what the incident is commonly called. Also the plane was called that in its many years of service after the incident. Would be helpful to put "Gimli Glider" in the video in case people want to Google it for more details.

Also didnt mention the boy in the bike who was being chased by the plane as it skidded down the *TArMac*

A plane was only half-filled up with fuel. Here's what happened to it's landing gear

Because the video is just filler for the ads and sponsor at either end.

AnarchistAaron If he wanted loads of ads on the video, then he’d make the video 10 minutes long so he could get max ads..

Gamer experienced lag Heres how his pc set up died

I hate those titles

I was thinking that

this is what happened to his brain

Chubbyemu

Alden's bro you need more likes.

OMG I LOVE X PLANE

I know im going to be annoying saying this but i have tooo......... FSX is better

@@brendanbailsongandaviation9954 prove it

U ready 4 dis............. It’s good

You'd be shitting yourself, and pissing yourself at the same time.

You would be the only person on the plane with clean underwear.

Ha!

Lalit Gupta I agree that’s me when something scary happen when I’m in the bathroom

that must’ve been a real shitty situation

they got in trouble because of how much epic they were

Thinblue Line I say the part where you have to fly a plane.

Im no pilot but im pretty sure checking the fuel guage is part of the pre flight check. Thats why they got in trouble..

I did a quick search on the story and while they did an epic job on landing the plane, there were some mistakes both pilot and co-pilot made prior to take off, as well as the ground crew. A big mistake was the plane was not considered flight-worthy if its fuel gauges weren't working but the pilot signed off on them being broken because he thought the plane came in that way and thought the previous pilot had signed off. Just lots of little mistakes that added up to a potential disaster.

@@thatjeff7550 yeah, humans do make mistakes

Welcome to Canada.

NO , French fries Please

@@jamesadams3458 stop making me hungry

I’m SHOOK as he is a rebel omg 💀

Ik

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Dude I died laughing it threw me waaay off 😂😂😂😂😂

@Piemasteratron -- I'd say that's an amazing pilot /copilot! Good, sound heads on their shoulders to keep things together, then the skills to carry out that kind of a landing with the aircraft is such condition. They deserve a large amount of credit! :-)

Piemasteratron I know some parts that weren’t included in the video. (I live maybe 3 hours away from Gimli.) At the time the plane landed, there weren’t any cars on the runway/drag strip. But there were 3 kids on bicycles. Suddenly this huge totally silent plane appeared from nowhere, and the kids had to ride like hell to get out of its way. There were a lot of cars parked at the end of the runway, and it looked for a bit like the plane would smash into all of them. But of course they managed to get it stopped. Afterward the plane was called the Gimli Glider, and people would say “Hey, remember the Gimli Glider?” Years later (I’m thinking about 2008), one of those boys on the track, now a man, was driving his car on a highway when a small plane made an emergency landing on the highway. He said he thought “Oh no! Not again!”

Look up Air Transat Flight 236.

“Gimli glider”!

They already told in the video

I'm lol hysterically!

I hate Math... so I'm fucked!!

How about communicating effectively saves lives. They were fine with the imperial system until they switched.

@@cixlo Ultimately, it comes down to the P.i.C. (pilot in command) & It's always easy to fault someone in life & always in business! From a commercial Pilot's perspective; I feel the upper management at Air Canada holds significant liability in this. I am also aware of & openly acknowledging, surprisingly, this is the first account of this incident I have heard ! While highly entertaining & lol funny, this was an avoidable situation from the start. Again, going off what I learned here & while people @ large tend to almost "need?" To place blame on one or more persons. Had it not been for these 2 Pilot's heroic reaction to certain disaster, the pain & suffering, possible physical destruction (my immediate fear would be a school or similar structure being unavoidable in an almost nearly crippled aircraft) Would have affected hundreds of people & families, possibly more. Again, I'm not familiar with this particular incident & my opinion is just that. Quite simply, I would HIGHLY agree the break down in communication contributed heavily & almost certainly would have avoided it! Where or who dropped that ball, idk enough to make a statement of such immense proportions. This could quite easily have been on another, much less entertaining video! My largest hope is that Air Canada & the entire aviation community took appropriate measures to be certain that this would not even be possible to have ever, happen again ! Failure by design to an extent & in aviation, especially commercial aviation! Knowing this potential was lurking & allowing it to exist, I feel it was someone other than the pilot's who are to blame & could have/SHOULD have, outright prevented, or even communicated appropriately, like you mentioned, preventing almost certain disaster! Absolute bottom line for me, is it's a stressful enviroment; When lives are at stake, any & every possible safety measure should not only be implemented, rather become procedure as most aspect's of flight are. Lol funny to hear it told as was, but T.G. 2 Pilot's may/may not have made a major oversight, They redeemed themselves in my book @ the end of the day! Amen

what does this mean?

@@Uniquaization The captain "slipped" the plane sideways, basically throwing or skidding the plane sideways through the air ,like a car drifting but instead it's a freaking jetliner . This was a ridiculous feat of skill because the plane is way too big to usually do that kind of thing especially without engine power, but he pulled it off anyway because there was no other way to get it onto the runway at the right time.

I watched that movie too. people might understand better if you called it side slipping. it's not really that hard, either.

@@Uniquaization Slipping is when you use cross controls such as left aileron and right rudder. It causes the air plane to fly a little sideways and is mainly used when you need to lose a little altitude fairly quickly. You would need to do this so that you touch down at the start of the runway rather than the middle of it.

@@thinkandgame3627 that's what I thought

Wat

Well somehow it is the pilot's fault for not checking the fuel tank

@@Raniaska0306 Not pilot's fault ,the fuel quantity indicator system malfunctioning

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They nearly got everyone killed - I think that was the point. The Captain is responsible for everything from fuel to flaps. (flaps. haha)

wait t'ill you heard of the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter.

@@lordcroussette exactly

Unlisted Tiger no, a rocket blew up in the middle of the sky

Hardly rare. Look up Aer Mexico

Only in Canada..