01/07/2023
Sofi Tanzeel
Would the lead steward please come to the flightdeck.. immediately". Sounds like one of thosein-flight announcements from a dramatic planecrash movie. No one would ever want to hear this in reality. Unfortunately, it's exactly what thepassengers on Air Transat Flight 236 heard as theirplane ran out of fuel somewhere above the Atlantic. It was supposed to be a regular flight for Air Transat from Toronto, Canada, to Lisbon, Portugal. The weather was fine that August evening, and Flight 236 took off without delays. It had 306 people on board. The Airbus was fairly new, with only 2 years of active service. It had two powerful engines, and 5 tons more fuel than is required when it took off. Yet, 8 hours later, when the plane should have touched down in Lisbon, it was nowhere to be seen.
Air Transat Flight 236 was a transatlantic flightbound for Lisbon, Portugal, from Toronto, Canada,that lost all engine power while flying over theAtlantic Ocean on August 24, 2001. The Airbus A330an out of fuel due to a fuel leak caused by impropermaintenance. Captain Robert Piché, 48, anexperienced glider pilot, and First Officer DirkDeJager, 28, glided the plane to a successfulemergency landing in the Azores, saving all 306people (293 passengers and 13 crew) on board.
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