It is 37 years ago (24 May 1988) that we heard of the South West Airlines Boeing 737-300 TACA Flight 110 that did a dead stick forced landing after a dual flame-out in a thunderstorm in USA.
Initially the pilot was aiming to ditch the 737 into a long canal that was parallel to a levee. At the last minute he saw the area next to the canal was long enough for a dead stick wheels down forced landing so he side-slipped the 737 and landed safely. Later, and after some fuel was removed to make the aircraft lighter, the aircraft was flown off by pilots provided by Boeing and ferried to a nearby airfield.
It was later revealed the captain of TACA Flight 110 had only one eye - althought still licensed to fly the 737. This incident was a good example of excellent airmanship. The reason I thought this would be a good story on Pprune Tech Log is that many of the Pprune fraternity reading this forum would not have been born when this incident occurred in 1988. The term Good Airmanship seemed to have been lost in time but that 737 dead stick forced landing by a one-eyed captain is a classic example of good airmanship along side of the Boeing 767 "Gimli Glider'forced landing and the A320 ditching by "Sully' Sullenberger in the Hudson River.
Read the story at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110