I grew up a 1/2 mile the airfield. I can hear gliding Cessna a 1/4 mile away. Most people can. An aircraft of this size makes even more wind noise. It isn't supersonic and it isn't a Grob sailplane. It's a jetliner with it's gear down and doing violent forward slips. It makes hella noise. Some people are just daydreamers. Including this guy. The pilot did a foward slip not a sideslip. Sideslips are for wind correction and forward slips are to add drag.
That was quite good until he started to talk about God at the end. God blessed everyone on board the plane that day, apparently. So God somehow failed to bless all the other poor souls who have perished in all the other plane crashes over the years. Interesting.
I like what he had to say. And its true that when you are that young you haven't had enough life experience to know how dangerous it was. I also feel that the pilot and co-pilot did not get the recognition they deserved for the lives that were saved. Its a shame.... they should be deemed as heroes!
@Frazzzld it was kind of a grey area to appraise the pilots as heros despite crash landing with no lives lost but if the pilots had basicsufficient mathematics knowledge and to spot that the errorneous calculations of fuel loaded on the plane before take off, the plane would not have been flying with insufficient fuel consequently having a flight as normal as any other flight that should have taken place with no cost to the investigation, damage to the plane, reputation of airflight company etc.
Shame on you! Did you look at all on entire consequences led to this accident? Aparently no! Math is somehow more wide science and algebra is only part of it. There was miscalculation on both sides - fuel filling personnel and pilot plus real fuel gauge meter out of order. What kind of man you are to be competent to judge pilots? Human is human and not fault tolerant device. You must count on it everywhere. Even astronauts are not trained to do sophisticated error backtracking.
I was in my first year at the Boeing Everett factory 767 line in 1989 when I discovered
this "Free Fall" story in Readers Digest. And had recently been in flight training for a two-seat glider with the Boeing Glider club. Capt Pearson & 1st officer Quintal saved every person's life that day. Capt Pearson was a Glider Instructor & knew the plane could glide in. A 767 glide ratio is 12-to-1, meaning for every 12 miles "glide" forward, it falls 5280 feet. Easier than gliding the space shuttle
Actually the boys weren't dumb at all. The plane was totally silent and they were looking the wrong direction. So when you see a huge plane coming you would probably have done the same thing. The runway had a metal barrier down the middle as well.
@toastyovens I agree there not dumb the gimli glider is silent because they lost both engines and with out engines the plain is silent. The engines is what makes the plane loud but with out them you can't hear.
Because the plane had absolutely no sound the boys neither heard it nor saw it because they were facing the other way. They were not on a road, but an abandoned air runway next to what was a dragstrip. The boys were very lucky to turn their heads just in time to see the plane before being struck.
agreed, regardless of the fact that they heard it or not, when they did see it they had around 1000 ft of distance, they could have done a 90 degree turn and gone off to the side as fast as possible, instead they rode straight forward trying to out run the plane. I just don't understand why they would do that.
Yeh, "just"... sounds so easy written by you. When was it the last time you had this experience? You really know what you are talking about, dont you?
Heard about panic? Have you ever been in this situation? You know, science have a lot to say about these kind of things, and it is all things that make this reaction normal...
Nice to hear the account of the two young lads (adults now) who were cycling on the runway that day when Flight 143 made an unexpected landing. Amazing story!
Couldn't hear the metal of the nose scraping the runway??
sprayarm 1 month ago in playlist The Gimli Glider
@sprayarm
They saw it before it hit the runway.
frameready 1 month ago
aw yeah lord zukus yeah!
leahsocarinas 4 months ago
Lord Zukus!
TurboHertz 4 months ago
he had to ditch his truck on the highway because a cesna had to land there
freaky
Canada9990 1 year ago
It's quite amazing to read people calling others dumb, stupid or gay, when all they do is watch Youtube for a chance to bitch.
That, in itself, could be called many nasty names as well....
You could'nt expect a 767 to silently land on a drag race track and if you had been in it's way, I wonder how you would have reacted.
rouelibre1 1 year ago
lol they should have just went to the side of the runway instead of riding forward.
madzane94 1 year ago
@madzane94
Natural selection says that they should have died. Anybody who wouldn't leave the strip to avoidd the aircraft, is a guaranteed idiot.
AugustusLarch 1 year ago
@AugustusLarch
the aircraft was totally silent. The boys had their backs turned and saw it just in time to dart away.
frameready 1 month ago
@frameready
I grew up a 1/2 mile the airfield. I can hear gliding Cessna a 1/4 mile away. Most people can. An aircraft of this size makes even more wind noise. It isn't supersonic and it isn't a Grob sailplane. It's a jetliner with it's gear down and doing violent forward slips. It makes hella noise. Some people are just daydreamers. Including this guy. The pilot did a foward slip not a sideslip. Sideslips are for wind correction and forward slips are to add drag.
AugustusLarch 1 month ago
@AugustusLarch
stopy using imperials, can't you use KM instead of "moles"? and this is why flight 143 crashed.
zhengjdc 1 month ago
@madzane94 It was a dragstrip, and If they were in the strip itself, there probably were railings on the sides..
rkan2 4 months ago
I can just imagine turning around and seeing that a plane had just landed behind me...
Elemarth 1 year ago
That was a nice Hutch
SunsetSupermanRMB 1 year ago
That was quite good until he started to talk about God at the end. God blessed everyone on board the plane that day, apparently. So God somehow failed to bless all the other poor souls who have perished in all the other plane crashes over the years. Interesting.
ElliottsFather 1 year ago
I like what he had to say. And its true that when you are that young you haven't had enough life experience to know how dangerous it was. I also feel that the pilot and co-pilot did not get the recognition they deserved for the lives that were saved. Its a shame.... they should be deemed as heroes!
Frazzzld 1 year ago
@Frazzzld it was kind of a grey area to appraise the pilots as heros despite crash landing with no lives lost but if the pilots had basicsufficient mathematics knowledge and to spot that the errorneous calculations of fuel loaded on the plane before take off, the plane would not have been flying with insufficient fuel consequently having a flight as normal as any other flight that should have taken place with no cost to the investigation, damage to the plane, reputation of airflight company etc.
130ipower 1 year ago
@130ipower
Shame on you! Did you look at all on entire consequences led to this accident? Aparently no! Math is somehow more wide science and algebra is only part of it. There was miscalculation on both sides - fuel filling personnel and pilot plus real fuel gauge meter out of order. What kind of man you are to be competent to judge pilots? Human is human and not fault tolerant device. You must count on it everywhere. Even astronauts are not trained to do sophisticated error backtracking.
rybaluc 1 year ago
plane draging itself on runway=barbique?
nocturn333 1 year ago
I happen to believe the latter also. 1983 was a cool year.
Cococure83 1 year ago
That's not just any bike it's a HUTCH!
sohcsarewicked 2 years ago
I was in my first year at the Boeing Everett factory 767 line in 1989 when I discovered
this "Free Fall" story in Readers Digest. And had recently been in flight training for a two-seat glider with the Boeing Glider club. Capt Pearson & 1st officer Quintal saved every person's life that day. Capt Pearson was a Glider Instructor & knew the plane could glide in. A 767 glide ratio is 12-to-1, meaning for every 12 miles "glide" forward, it falls 5280 feet. Easier than gliding the space shuttle
sammvoyager 2 years ago
@sammvoyager But space shutle can maneuver with hydrazine rockets. But yep. It have gliding ratio of falling brick;)
rybaluc 1 year ago
dumb dumb kids!
toastyovens 2 years ago
Actually the boys weren't dumb at all. The plane was totally silent and they were looking the wrong direction. So when you see a huge plane coming you would probably have done the same thing. The runway had a metal barrier down the middle as well.
frameready 2 years ago
@toastyovens I agree there not dumb the gimli glider is silent because they lost both engines and with out engines the plain is silent. The engines is what makes the plane loud but with out them you can't hear.
okpapereat 1 year ago
Perhaps one of the best stores in Aviation.
DarienRedSox 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing, I always wondered what those kids on the bike thought when that happened to them.
jeepman65 2 years ago
lol, they panicked and tried to outrun the plane
Freeworld4575 2 years ago
Cool stuff! What a nice "get" (interview)!
radudeATL 2 years ago
they are so stupid why would they try to outrun a plane i would've just gone off the side of the road
JPau216 3 years ago
Because the plane had absolutely no sound the boys neither heard it nor saw it because they were facing the other way. They were not on a road, but an abandoned air runway next to what was a dragstrip. The boys were very lucky to turn their heads just in time to see the plane before being struck.
frameready 2 years ago
When they saw the 767, they fled, but right in the same direction as the aircraft.
They just would have to ride for 30 meters, in a 90° direction, and they would have been ok.
TexDublee 2 years ago
agreed, regardless of the fact that they heard it or not, when they did see it they had around 1000 ft of distance, they could have done a 90 degree turn and gone off to the side as fast as possible, instead they rode straight forward trying to out run the plane. I just don't understand why they would do that.
Rbattam 2 years ago
Yeh, "just"... sounds so easy written by you. When was it the last time you had this experience? You really know what you are talking about, dont you?
Me6is 2 years ago
Heard about panic? Have you ever been in this situation? You know, science have a lot to say about these kind of things, and it is all things that make this reaction normal...
Me6is 2 years ago
Would you know what to do if you were a kid and saw an aircraft coming down behind you and had only seconds to react?
DarienRedSox 2 years ago
@DarienRedSox panic and hope to god you wont get killed
Deancasser 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this fascinating interview.
cedarjet707 3 years ago
I miss those "old" Air Canada colours.
cochranexyz 3 years ago
Nice to hear the account of the two young lads (adults now) who were cycling on the runway that day when Flight 143 made an unexpected landing. Amazing story!
FakeRea1 3 years ago