![]() ![]() The nose landing gear collapses, yet the aircraft stops within a few meters of the end of the runway. Unknown to them, the airfield's abandoned runway is occupied by race cars and young cyclists, which they have to dodge. Quintal suddenly remembers a closer airfield in Gimli and the crew decide to try to land there instead of attempting to reach Winnipeg or land in water. Luckily, Pearson is a former glider pilot. ![]() The passengers face what they believe are their last moments alive. Fortunately, a ram air turbine kicks in and provides limited power to the instruments. It is followed by the failure of the two engines, and the complete shutdown of the instruments. The 767 is still far from that major airport, when suddenly, an alarm sounds, indicating they are out of fuel. Quintal revises the notepad used by the ground crew in Montréal and discovers they loaded 20,345 pounds (instead of kilograms) of fuel, less than half what they should have. After activating the cross-feeding valve between the tanks, the alarm stops. Their conversation is suddenly interrupted by a series of beeps indicating a failure with one of the fuel pumps. After a delay, the passengers board flight 174, including Rick Dion (Winston Rekert), the airline's chief mechanic, as well as his wife and three-year-old boy.Īfter takeoff, Dion visits Pearson on the flight deck. Their Flight Management Computer will constantly indicate the quantity on board. The two airmen feel uneasy about their 767 having an inoperative fuel gauge, but are somewhat reassured to see the ground crew measuring the quantity of fuel in the tanks: 20,345 kg, or so they believe, enough to take them to Vancouver. Elsewhere in Montréal, First Officer Maurice Quintal (Scott Hylands) reluctantly agrees to cover for an injured colleague, leaving behind his sick wife. Meanwhile, Beth Pearson (Mariette Hartley) drives her husband, Captain Robert Pearson (William Devane), to the airport, unusually anxious about hosting her in-laws later that day. This is the first aircraft in the fleet to use the metric system and they are about to make a terrible conversion mistake. It happened."()Ī few years earlier, on July 23, 1983, at Dorval Airport in Montreal, the ground crew of Canada World Airways struggles to convert gallons into liters and pounds into kilograms, as they prepare to refuel a brand-new Boeing 767 bound for Edmonton. In complete disbelief that such a scenario could ever happen in real life, they protest to the examiner. Two airline pilots experience a sudden loss of power in the two engines of their airliner due to a fuel pump failure and end up crashing shortly afterwards, albeit in a flight simulator.
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