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:
 https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-mathematical-miracle-t...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…”