This is a factual, hair-raising account of a 1983 Air Canada Boeing 767 that, due to a maintenance man's mathematical error in fueling and a fuel system computer malfunction, ran out of fuel and immediately lost all electrical power while in flight at a height of 41,000 feet. Bill and Marilyn Hoffer, freelance journalists, together have produced over one thousand magazine articles and nine books, including the international bestseller Midnight Express, and Not Without My Daughter. You will never look at flying in exactly the same way again. A brilliant recreation in which we relive the terror of those twenty-nine minutes through the eyes of those who experienced it. They had a maximum of twenty-nine minutes to prepare for their certain death. The nose of the plane dipped precipitously the gliding craft lost airspeed and altitude. They were now floating silently at 41,000 feet. An eerie silence shrouded the plane as flight crew and passengers attempted to deny reality.
Seconds later, Pearson and Quintal, his copilot, realized that the starboard engine also had failed, terminating all electrical power. Then, with no warning, 14,000 feet and westbound over Red Lake, Ontario, the portside engine failed. They had no plans for refueling and now there was no apparent need. He informed Pearson that the plane was fully fueled when, in fact, it was 26,000 pounds short. The 767's computers utilized only metric calculations, and the maintenance man struggled to convert conventional measures into the unfamiliar numbers. One of the maintenance men, in charge of fueling the craft, experienced a bit of difficulty with his math. Preparing to guide Air Canada Flight 143 from Montreal to Ottawa and then on to Edmonton, he checked his systems and entered into the computers the information he received from the ground crew. SYNOPSIS: On July 23, 1983, Captain Bob Pearson climbed into the cockpit of a twin-engine Boeing 767, one of the most sophisticated airliners in the world.
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TV TIE-IN: This book was the basis for the 1995 Made-for-Television film entitled Freefall: Flight 174, also known as Falling from the Sky: Flight 174. By the Author of Midnight Express and Not Without My Daughter: William Hoffer Marilyn Mona Hoffer. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased Light Moisture Damage In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped Light Moisture Damage (Staining).
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