30th Anniversary of The Gimli Glider Today
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30th Anniversary of The Gimli Glider Today
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Captain Bob Pearson 30 Years Later
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I only looked at the interface with EICAS but seem to remember additional strapping for Imperial/Metric and a return 429 bus from the DCU to the FQGC to confirm that. Sorry but it is nearly 30 years ago!
Pearson airport,
DaveReidUK,
According to a book I read about the incident the airport was renamed after an Canadian former Prime Minister with the same name.
So it is a pure coincidence.
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According to a book I read about the incident the airport was renamed after an Canadian former Prime Minister with the same name.
So it is a pure coincidence.
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It amazes me as to how the media always seem to make heros out of pilots who screw up, ie the dead stick into Gimli, and the repeat perfomance of Transat, its worth noting that neither of these pilots captained an aircraft again for their respective airlines, for those" in the know" we all understand why this action was taken, as for the inquiry outcomes, at least one of them deserves the Pulitzer prise for fiction, suffice to say the "metric" debate was used to great advantage by some very able lawyers.
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