Re: ditchings (was Re: Space Access Update #112 9/19/05)

Brian Thorn wrote:
> >I'm told there was also a close call over the eastern Atlantic in summer
> >2001, which might have become a ditching if there hadn't been an island
> >airport handy.
>
> That was the "Transat Glider", an Air Transat Airbus A330 which made
> an unpowered landing in the Azores because of an incorrect fuel load.

Gimli Glider was an incorrect fuel load due to units confusion.

Transat Glider was not following a technical bulletin leading to a fuel
line breaking in one nacelle and the pilots moving fuel around to
rebalance tanks and eventually dumping it all out said broken fuel
line.

But there's still the Ethiopian 767 ditching in 1996 after being
hijacked and running out of fuel. Killed lots of passengers after not
deploying flaps and hitting the water at 130+ knots.

-jake

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