air canada 143

a quiet flight from Ottawa to Edmonton. Inside the cockpit of the brand-new Boeing 767, Captain Bob Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal are relaxed—until a series of chimes changes everything. The first warning light flickered. Then another. Suddenly, the left engine quit. While the pilots were busy trying to figure out why, a loud "bong" echoed through the cabin—a sound neither of them had ever heard in ​Because the engines provided electricity, the glass cockpit went dark. The only instruments left were a few mechanical backups. Worst of all, they lost their vertical speed indicator—they had no idea how fast they were falling. simulator. It was the sound of the second engine failing. First Officer Quintal grabbed a mechanical calculator to figure out if they could make it to Winnipeg. They couldn't. He suggested a closed Air Force base he remembered in Gimli.came to a final stop on the ground 17 minutes after running out of fuel. No serious injuries