Side-slipping a 767?!
Hello all,
Recently found out about an astonishing Air Canada flight that took place around June 1983.
Due to a number of misunderstandings, lack of clearly-defined responsibilities and confusion over the conversion of metric and imperial fuel volumes and weights, the 767 departed Ottawa for Edmonton with about half the required fuel on board.
They declare an emergency somewhere past Thunder Bay, and aim for a dead stick landing in Winnipeg. As there is no fuel to power the electrics, of course, the handling pilot is limited to A/S indicator, AH, altimeter, and gyro...They work out that they can`t make Winnipeg and are given vectors for Gimli.
On the approach to Gimli, the captain decides they are too high and fast, so he SLIPS THE 767 and lands safely on the runway! Has anyone heard of anything similar before or since? Was it big news in Canada at the time?