A Powerless Boeing Falls From The Sky! | Gimli Glider | FULL EPISODE | Mayday: Air Disaster

Air Canada 143 is in danger of running out of fuel. Captain Pearson decides to land as soon as possible and heads for Winnipeg. As he descends he loses one engine, then another - the huge Boeing is powerless and is falling from the sky! Want to see more full episodes on our channel? Watch them here: https://bit.ly/3vYH6wJ From Season 5 Episode 2 "Gimli Glider": July 23, 1983 - It’s a calm summer evening. Air Canada flight 143 is on its way to Edmonton from Montreal. There are 61 passengers and 8 crew members on board. Captain Bob Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal are both veteran pilots, but they’re flying a new automated Boeing 767. They’re still getting to know the new state-of-the-art plane. Midway through the flight, things begin to go horribly wrong. A warning goes off indicating low pressure in one of the plane’s fuel pumps, then minutes later another one goes off for another fuel pump. Gimli, a decommissioned air base nearby, is the best bet. But the massive plane is now too high, and too close to the runway. The only way for Pearson to get his plane safely down is to try a manoeuvre that only glider pilots would know about. Bob Pearson flies gliders in his spare time. He twists the rudder one way, and dips the wings in the opposite direction, forcing the plane into a sideways freefall. It’s called a sideslip, and Pearson is so preoccupied executing it that he doesn’t notice what’s ahead. The Gimli airbase is now a drag racing track. The runway Pearson is headed for is anything but abandoned. Racers and their families are camping out at the strip for the weekend. As Pearson touches down, his front landing gear collapsed, his rear tires blow. He manages to avoid the people on the runway and bring his plane to a safe stop. The first-ever 767 to land without engines does so without so much as a single serious injury. Welcome to the OFFICIAL Mayday: Air Disaster YouTube Channel. Mayday: Air Disaster is a dramatic non-fiction series that investigates high-profile air disasters to uncover how and why they happened. Mayday: Air Disaster follows survivors, family members of crash victims and transportation safety investigators as they piece together the evidence of the causes of major accidents. So climb into the cockpit for an experience you won’t soon forget. Subscribe to the OFFICIAL Mayday: Air Disaster channel here: https://bit.ly/2PQnaMI #MaydayAirDisaster #MaydayInvestigation #AirEmergency #MaydayEpisodes #planecrashes #airplanecrashes #aviationaccidents #Fullepisode #airplanedisasterdocumentary #aircrashinvestigation #GimliGlider #AirCanada143