QHSlidin wrote:
I love watching stuff like this.

You may also want to consider these twin uplifting stories: Air Transat 236, and Air Canada 143... both of which ran out of fuel, midflight, and had to be glided in.

TS236 lost all of its fuel while over the middle of the Atlantic, due to careless action by the ground crew, and oversight by the flight crew. All electric power failed as well. They lowered the R.A.T. (ram air turbine) which is basically a small pinwheel attached to a generator; in emergency situations, it can use airflow passing over the fuselage to generate enough electricity to power the cockpit and the hydraulic pumps in the wings/tail. They were actually able to glide her long enough to line up with the runway at Lajes, in the Azores islands. She still came with way too much speed, and hit the ground so hard that every wheel either got thrown off her landing gear or melted. But the brakes held, and everyone survived. Actual pictures below, as well as re-creation video.

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AC143 didn't lose any fuel, it just took off with too little, due to clerical error, and it wasn't noticed until too late. The captain managed to glide the in, in the coolest way possible: "side-slipping!" He was coming in way too fast, and was concerned that the ship might shatter if he touched down at that speed, so he turned it to its side, and with (incredible skill and) perfect inputs, he was able to fly the plane sideways while still facing forward (not to be confused with "crabbing, which is flying the aircraft forward while tilting the nose sideways into crosswind). The nose landing gear refused to come down, but his amazing side-slipping, was enough to slow the aircraft down (in the limited distance they had) to glide it into Gimli, Manitoba The aircraft became forever known as the "Gimli Glider" among aviation circles. Everyone survived. Actual picture below.

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A vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire.
~ImmortalSynn