40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
Here is a better article about Flight 143 from the brilliant admiralcloudberg crash analysis blog:
 <a href="https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-mathematical-miracle-the-story-of-air-canada-flight-143-or-the-gimli-glider-9e99545d9b3d" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-mathematical-miracle-t...</a><p>The linked article is not bad but reads a bit too much like a Dan Brown novelization for me taste… “ The mustachioed Captain Pearson pulled out the trusty Boeing handbook, his fingers dashing through the pages…”