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Yes, it turned out OK. But the bigger picture is the mistakes of assumptions with critical resources not unlike a situation with (smoke) fire. Both can be disastrous if not dealt with upfront in time. It is understood one is trained to believe instruments but relationship to what is actually going on vs. what multiple gauges are showing needs to error on the side of caution. My hindsight says if they did not trust instruments why move fuel? If inaccurate the same outcome will happen so preserve the fuel on the good side. As well, the cross-over valve was left open. Since all turned out OK, we just be thankful the right pilot was able to be on duty.

Some marvellous aircraft handling there. But some lacklustre skills were displayed dealing with fuel management and procedures.

Larry Be Yeah they either had a fuel leak or their instruments were giving false information, which would mean the engine had normal amounts of fuel, I don’t see how transferring fuel helps in either scenario. They must have been following a checklist given by the company without putting any thought into it

It was harsh to say pilot error as he was not aware about the leak or maintenance carried out on this aircraft. The series of S turns without engine is a remarkable thing a pilot can do instead of landing at a high altitude nd speed

Yeah, no kidding. Pilots who actually know how to fly! I get the feeling that today, if you put most pilots in a 1950's airplane, they couldn't get it off the ground, and if they did, couldn't fly around the field and land it. "No computers! WTF?! I can't fly this thing!"

well technically he almost killed 100s of lives

Is.jeaks Technically, he didn’t.

Jr D It was technically on the maintenance crew who did wrong

i think we are all agree that they made a AWESOME job landing a plane without engines but we (and they) must accept that there was a mistake on the pilots side too (not closing that valve) so they can avoid it in future.

@@crisan868 Is not doing something you were not aware of really a mistake?

Yes,yes it did :)

Robert Piché was not a glider pilot, but a bush pilot. He grew up on the Gaspé peninsula in Northern Québec and was flying small planes into the bush from the age of 17. He also flew for Québecair which served the northern Inuit settlements near the Arctic circle and the mining towns on the Canadian Shield. He was also well known for his flying marijuana loaded planes into the USA and was eventually arrested at a Georgian airfield with a full load of pot from Jamaica in 1983. He served 16 months in an American jail. He is quite the rebel bush pilot and still actively flies today, but for private clients and also started several years back a foundation in his name to help people beat their addictions to drugs and alcohol.

@@GaisSacredCreations, then the information given at the start of this video is incorrect. It clearly says he was a glider pilot....

@@leonnehaaijman4709 Yes, and many videos say the same thing, He was a bush pilot working in the northern extremes of our province.

Well the tyres did burst during touchdown noted by the blown tyres in one of the pictures shown at the end.

Ye lmao, "almost a perfect touchdown"

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@@tomaskilian8489 No U

I've been PIC on over 400 flights with unpowered landings. Never blown a tire. (I did bust a heel once though. :/) It was the 120 km glide ... over water ... that impressed me.

Not only You. But all the pilots, aircraft manufacturers and airline's shareholders... ...ok, beside the joke: Azores Islands have been for a couple of years, maybe decades, as Nassau, Bahamas and Gander, Newfoundland too, scheduled refuelling stop-over for transatlantic flights.

I think the Azores have saved more than one flight if I remember correctly.

Cult?

Yup and this aircraft still in service

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T Aj that glided farther

@@Khookies-lp2lu Those Canadian pilots must love their personal gliders. And that skill sure has come in handy at critical moments!

They did a study on the passengers they could find and discovered that half of them did indeed show PTSD symptoms.

Uhhhh.....3:1 works. If they're maintaining it, or above all is rosie. If not, all will soon be wet.

Assume you have a massive fuel leak due to the wrong part being installed days prior.? Shame on you for dissing those who saved 309 lives

.. Or a soft landing amidst the waves x)

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Because they didn't follow protocol which would have meant the left engine receiving enough fuel

*+JGSHEW* Not following protocol was a grevious error and the outcome could've been catastrophic. They captain couldn't imagine the problem was anything but a computer issue and so failed to make it impossible for the fuel from the left side to be lost. Yes, they did a great job getting the plane all that distance without engines but they would've still had one engine if the captain had followed the correct protocol, regardless of him making an incorrect assumption.

Technically the stupid mechanics should be at fault! You don't just MacGyver an airplane back together!

@@Mandy_39 Look at 11:06. The lead mech saw the issue, but 'Air Transit' -- the airline -- ordered the mechs to proceed with the "fix" that lead to the leak.

Cameras? Permanent satellite connections transmitting all data to the ground (and storing it) would be even better so something like MH370 wouldn't even happen (or at least it would be known where it went and maybe what happened).

egalf - Both are needed, but cameras especially, so the crew can see things outside the aircraft, such as the flight controls. Planes have crashed just because the pilots didn't know the flight controls were stuck or malfunctioning. To your point...MH370 HAD transponders, etc, but it was *turned off.* Forcing some kind of "always on" policy so that the tracking and positioning systems _cannot_ be turned off...a simple change...and we'd know where MH370 went down.

A380s have external cameras, as do all A340s, I believe... Not sure about Boeing aircraft.

And you have it backwards, most operators are well ahead of regulators like the FAA. After the Germanwings incident for example, all major airlines (including those in North America and Asia) voluntarily changed their procedures requiring that no pilot be left alone in the cockpit, well ahead of the FAA and EU regulations requiring the same.

@@conorcorrigan765 FAA had a 2-crew minimum mandate for quite some time. If one pilot leaves to take a leak, the No. 1 flight attendant is re-stationed to the cockpit until he returns.

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They were not trying to pass the buck. they were doing their job which is to find out every single thing that contributed to the incident.

Exactly, the pilots should sue AirTransat and Airbus for suggesting it was their fault. Those companies would have rather have the plane crash and everyone aboard dead putting the blame on the pilots than being exposed as the greedy assholes they are by not waiting for the right fuel line and letting the plane fly with the wrong part.

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Captain Robert Piché and First Officer (F/O) Dirk DeJager were both awarded the Superior Airmanship Award in 2002 for their strong efforts in landing the plane safely and saving the lives of all passengers and crew.

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Nice video sir 😍 what about the air France's A340 which crash at toronto

Because Of its Wings, The Aerodynamics Leave a Little 15% Of glide to The Aircraft. Most of The Aerodynamics Are Controlled By Winglets, If The Plane Didn't Have Winglets, Most Of The Aerodynamics Are Also Gone. This Means that Removing these May Decrease By 15%.

The Husband must have been thinking "oops" after the landing.

Did First Officer Dirk DeJager speak to you?

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Nice one! Very interesting indeed!

Haha same

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God has nothing to do with it. What are you on about?

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They were thinking about a computer mistake, at the end they were wrong.

@@pascaljutras178 if it was computer mistake then there was no imbalance. So why move fuel if there is no imbalance? or you are talking about other mistake?

You state a good point

Corporate shill. Fuck your book

they were also the ones who fucked up royalli and the guilty of making an engine-out incident into a total engine out one.. So the captain saved the plane and passangers..after getting them into trouble

To be fair it's partly their error that put the aircraft in danger in the first place. Aside from that, it was an amazing landing.

absolutelly agree

How insulting of you.

You certainly would do better and diagnosed a maintenance screw up

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anita vaidya i Agree I have no credentials to fly a plane butthis video only raises my respect for those who do and do it very skilfully , a experienced glider pilot who was the Captain and the longest commercial glide ...Incredible

To TheBigDanois: Why is he an "Asshole' for just stating his opinion and explaining what might have been done. He never said it was what HE would have done and just stated it as an alternative to what WAS done! How many times has the hubris of commercial pilots, who chose to disregard the on-board computer indications & recommendations, led to only later finding out it was they themselves who were wrong. Why are all GA pilots who take instrument training taught to always rely on the instruments and not there own conception of what's going on in an aircraft at any given time. They are evidently taught that because experience has shown that instruments and electronic aviation technology has proven to be considerably more accurate and not biased by human emotion. Aviation technology has chosen to follow this paradigm because they have evidence based statistics to back this up. Computers are more often right than they are wrong where as human decisions are many times just the opposite or not optimal in situations like this and especially in situations where aircraft attitudinal awareness is involved.

I said the exact same thing... Well almost

Turning off engine 2 for most of the flight would have been fine, and the relighting it prior to landing so that full TOGA power was available for landing. Regardless, a 120 km final glide is pretty impressive. I'm curious if he had autopilot assist or if he had to do airspeed management manually for that whole time. I'm also curious what other information sources he had for glide path calculation, and if he had flaps available for landing, and if he chose not to use them due to their possibly unknown (to him at that time) effect on the glide polar.

I don't think this is the first video I've watched where an oil leak is passed off as computer error, it kind of amazes me.

Well, with hindsight, it's easy to call it a "grave mistake". But there's one piece of information that did not make it into the video, which probably would alter your judgement, and it is the following : these planes are always sending false alarms because the computer programs are buggy. Over time, these bugs are fixed, but in 2001, the A330 was still a relatively new model and the computer bugs had not all been fixed. Hence, all these false alarms create confusion and raise the crew's skepticism. That's the reason why the crew was not too impressed when it got the alarm. Combine that with the fact that, as a result of the leak, the oil pump was showing high pressure while being too cold (something physically impossible), it only added to the crew's skepticism regarding the reality of that alarm. Another piece of information that did not make it to the video is the fact that the airlines' crews are always under pressure from their management (all airlines - Air Transat is no worse no better than the others). The captain did express that concern, saying something like (it's on the crew conversation recorder): "I will get a shit load from the big bosses if I land in the Azores while this plane is perfectly fit to fly". Nevertheless, the crew came to the conclusion that there was a high probability that there was something wrong and diverted. Had they not made that decision, they would have ended in the ocean. Overall, when you factor in ALL of the above, the crew did a very good job.

Because if they had done the correct actions they could have landed with one engine instead of none. In short they made the situation worse. What would you prefer?

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If you have fuel disappearing from one side faster than the other but your engines are at same thrust then what else is it going to be? A FQI failure malfunction? Maybe but you’d still do fuel leak check anyway even if that involves shutting off an engines to see if fuel continues to leak out

@@tomstravels520 True.

⁠@@tomstravels520easy for you to say. This incident never happened before or since. This was a maintenance supervisor error. You bite like a fish to Air Tranzat deflection of responsibility. How insulting to those dudes who saved 309 lives

What a thing to live through ! Survivors of flights gone wrong have all a story to tell.

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I admire him for the deadstick landing. BUT if he would have followed procedure, he would not had to do a deadstick landing.

VMC Aviation Videos if he followed procedures and the plane still had some fuel when he landed remember it was still leaking the plane may have erupted into a huge fireball and all died because all the tyres burst which causes arcing. He was travelling at up to about 300 miles an hour according to newspaper reports at the time down the runway This guy was a hero he thought I get one chance it’s do or die. I have never heard of a plane in my lifetime gliding that far it’s actually a miracle

The passengers we're probably taken to Lisbon on another plane. The accident aircraft suffered damage from the landing. The plane was repaired and returned to service with Air Transat. The plane still flies with the airline today.

@@AidenTheAviator and probably it was stopped flying for investigation for some time?