Pearson and Quintal both used the density of jet fuel in lb/L without converting to kg/L:[4]:40–41, Instead of taking on the 20,088 litres of additional fuel that they required, they instead took on only 4,917 litres. "It's the end of an era.". pager: 0, mode: 'fade',

After the Gimli accident, he would pilot the plane another 30 times, including several trips paired with Mr. Quintal, now 60, who retired last year from Air Canada. -Pilot initiates sideslip to reduce altitude. [4]:43–44, Following Air Canada's internal investigation, Captain Pearson was demoted for six months, and First Officer Quintal was suspended for two weeks for allowing the incident to happen. The $40 million, cutting-edge plane had become a great metal glider, descending at a rate of 2,500 feet per minute. Besides the two co-pilots, three of the six flight attendants are also expected to make the journey, which will include a stopover in Tucson, Ariz. Today's flight will be captained by Jean-Marc Bélanger, a former head of the Air Canada Pilots Association, with a fly-past scheduled after the plane leaves Air Canada's Montreal maintenance hangar. Following a crew change, it departed Montreal as Flight 143 for the return trip to Edmonton via Ottawa, with Captain Robert (Bob) Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal at the controls. First Officer Quintal had been stationed there during his military service. On board were 61 passengers and a crew of eight. The incident attracted international attention and the plane was dubbed the “Gimli Glider.” It was repaired and continued to be part of Air Canada’s fleet until 2008, when it was retired.

En avril 2013, le planeur de Gimli est mis en vente aux enchères avec un prix estimé de 2,75 millions à 3M millions de dollars canadiens. Quintal was promoted to captain i… As the gliding aircraft gained on the runway, the pair discovered they were too high, and they risked overshooting the landing strip. This prompted the pilots to divert to Winnipeg. Air Canada Flight 143 was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,000 m), midway through the flight. Three maintenance workers were also suspended.

Electronic flight instrument system unable to function without electricity generated by the jet engines. During the handover, Weir told Pearson that there was a problem with the FQIS, and Pearson decided to take on enough fuel to fly to Edmonton without refueling in Ottawa. Thank you, Mr. Quintal, and may the winds ever be in your favor. Un des instruments hors fonction est l'indicateur de vitesse verticale (variomètre), qui leur aurait permis de savoir à quelle vitesse ils chutaient et donc sur quelle distance ils pourraient planer. $("#advpsslideshow_1 .advps-slide").hover(function(){

After the airliner had touched down, the nose began to scrape along the guardrail in the centre of the race track, creating additional frictional drag that contributed to the plane's deceleration; Pearson applied extra right brake, which caused the main landing gear to straddle the guardrail. p{font-size:12px;line-height:12px}} jQuery(document).ready(function($){ The FQIS on the aircraft was a dual-processor channel, each independently calculating the fuel load and cross-checking with the other. Mr. Pearson and Mr. Quintal will board the plane on a special flight this morning, departing from Montreal to oversee the jet's retirement at the Mojave Airport in the California desert. S'il y en avait eu un, il se serait sans doute chargé de la vérification visuelle et aurait pu voir que le niveau était bien trop bas. Des mécaniciens réparent bientôt les dégâts mineurs, permettant ainsi à l'appareil de voler pour être pris en charge. a{font-size:14px;line-height:14px}#advps_container1 .advps-slide

Le 24 janvier 2008, le planeur de Gimli entreprend son dernier voyage, AC7067, de Montréal-Trudeau à l'aéroport international de Tucson avant son départ à la retraite dans le désert des Mojaves. This was approximately half of the amount required to reach their destination. À cette époque, le Canada venait de passer au système métrique, donc des livres aux kilogrammes. As weight shifted to the front of the plane, the unlocked nose gear was jammed back into its compartment, and the plane bounced forward before grinding along the runway in the direction of families now cooking and socializing after the recently ended drag races. img{border:1px Pearson undertook that day, with the help of his First Officer Maurice Quintal, has placed both he and the Gimli Glider in … },function(){ solid #CCC;padding:3px}#advps_container1 #bx-pager a:hover img, #advps_container1 #bx-pager a.active This caused a loss of electrical and hydraulic power to the aircraft. A few seconds later, the fuel pressure alarm also sounded for the right engine. The pilots began to gear up for a one-engine landing, a difficult maneuver, but one that Pearson had trained for in flight simulators. He agreed with the pilots that it was best to be safe and heed the warnings. Selon le site Web consacré à la sauvegarde de l'avion, il est démantelé au début de 2014, mais pas abandonné[Quoi ?]. As the gliding plane closed in on the decommissioned runway, the pilots noticed that there were two boys riding bicycles within 1,000 feet (300 m) of the projected point of impact. Also, the recent change from the Imperial measurement system to metric resulted in a series of miscalculations as to how much fuel was actually aboard the aircraft before the flight. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff. In retrospect, Ground Controller Jessie Widner, thought at the time "Holy Cow, I'm talking to a dead Man! " L'histoire commence le 23 juillet 1983 avec une confusion sur une conversion métrique. As they communicated their intentions to controllers in Winnipeg and tried to restart the left engine, the cockpit warning system sounded again with the "all engines out" sound, a sharp "bong" that no one in the cockpit could recall having heard before. [4], The Board of Inquiry found fault with Air Canada procedures, training, and manuals. Not long after that, the plane’s left engine puttered out.

Il n'y avait pas de mécanicien navigant à bord puisque le Boeing 767 se pilote à deux. "Maurice and I have retired from flying, and now the plane will be retired," Mr. Pearson said. On Saturday, July 23, 1983, the jet landed safely and a legend was born. Read our, I'm a print subscriber, link to my account, Avoid the use of toxic and offensive language. In older aircraft that flew with a three-person crew, the flight engineer kept a fuel log and supervised the fueling. The technician found a defective Fuel Quantity Indication System, so he disabled the defective channel and made an entry in the logbook. Le planeur de Gimli a ensuite été programmé pour partir Tucson et faire le dernier vol vers l'aéroport de Mojave (KMHV) pour la retraite, mais a été retardé. Enfin, le moteur gauche s'arrête et ils se préparent à un atterrissage avec un seul moteur. Pearson had extensive experience flying gliders and used this knowledge to extend the glide of the 767.

[4]:42–43, The previous flight from Edmonton to Montreal had avoided the error. Les blessures sont vite traitées par un médecin dont l'avion était sur le point de décoller de l'autre piste de Gimli toujours utilisée par un aéro-club et par des parachutistes.

[14], There were no serious injuries among the 61 passengers or the people on the ground. (2/2), Runduce se lance dans la construction d’une GT-R radicale, [Podcast 88] L’essentiel de la semaine automobile par leblogauto.com, [Podcast 84] L’essentiel de la semaine automobile par leblogauto.com, Roadtrip par Leblogauto.com, S04E04 au Yucatan, Essai Peugeot 508 GT Puretech 225 ch [Vidéo], Roadtrip par Leblogauto.com, S04E03 dans la Tarentaise. In a misunderstanding, the pilot believed that the aircraft had been flown with the fault from Toronto the previous afternoon.

"I don't think any airline likes publicity about accidents, even if they work out okay, like it did in this case," said Mr. Pearson, who was invited by Air Canada last Thursday to show up for today's flight. Il le signale à la tour de contrôle qui lui répond qu’a priori, le refueller verse assez d’essence pour que l’avion arrive à destination. Ils arrivent à 7 682 litres. The exhibit includes a cockpit mock-up flight simulator and also sells memorabilia of the event. Quelques instants plus tard une deuxième alarme sonne et les pilotes décident de dérouter le vol vers Winnipeg. [12] It included a road race course, a go-kart track, and a dragstrip. S hortly after dinner on July 23, 1983, a light in the cockpit of Air Canada Flight 143 alerted pilots Bob Pearson and Maurice Quintal of a fuel-pressure problem. En approchant, Quintal descend le train d'atterrissage. Mr. Pearson had gliding experience from 1964 to 1970, so he recalls that instead of panicking as the Boeing 767 cruised at high altitude, his mind switched to directing the plane as best he could with Mr. Quintal.

}); Quintal connait un aéroport dans les environs: celui de Gimli. auto: 1, En approchant, il devient clair qu'ils ont trop d'altitude et Pearson doit exécuter une glissade pour réduire l'altitude sans accélérer (une manœuvre effectuée plutôt sur des avions légers ou des planeurs consistant à mettre l'avion en vol dissymétrique, le nez déplacé vers un côté et les ailes inclinées de l'autre). Canada’s recent pivot from the imperial to the metric system didn’t help either. Un peu plus tard, une deuxième alerte retentit et un premier moteur tombe en panne. Pearson decided to execute a forward slip to increase drag and lose altitude. [4]:41 The density in metric units was 0.803 kg/L, so the correct calculation would have been: At the time of the incident, Canada's aviation sector was in the process of converting from Imperial units to the metric system.

autoHover: 1, Ce qui devait arriver, arriva. In 1985 the pilots were awarded the first ever Fédération Aéronautique InternationaleDiploma for Outstanding Airmanship. Small air turbine automatically deploys, using the passing airstream to generate power for ailerons and rudder. Following a successful appeal against their suspensions, Pearson and Quintal were assigned as crew members aboard another Air Canada flight. [3], The Boeing 767 had a Fuel Quantity Indication System with two redundant channels, but a design flaw caused it to fail if only one channel failed.

useCSS:1, These problems, plus a broken chain of communication, caused two experienced Air Canada pilots to leave the ground with only 9,144 of the requisite 20,400 kilograms of fuel, less than half of what they would need to fly the scheduled 2,100 miles from Montreal to Edmonton.