The Gimli glider was a regular on the Toronto to SanFrancisco
route after the Gimli "incident". I was on it at least a half dozen
times in the 80's. After the Gimli incident it retained its registration
C-GAUN. I am sure most who were on her never knew.

On one trip I remember joking with the flight crew about the AC
while waiting for the passenger tunnel to clear.

w..


Apptech wrote:

> Jeanette will find this interesting.
>
> _____________
>
> The "Gimli Glider" was a world renowned aircraft incident
> that could have resulted in the death of a plane-load of 767
> passengers but instead resulted in a text book case of how
> not to handle anything at all, and a deadstick semiwheelsup
> unpowered uninstrumented crash landing of a 767 on a
> decommissioned military airstrip.
>
> It has finally been decommissioned last week, having failed
> to be at Gimli long ago, and now resides at Mojave Spaceport
> or close by.
>
> The following account is fascinating reading in its own
> right. However, if you deal with systems of ANY sort that
> can go wrong, this case study can shown you a number of ways
> that people can make it happen when you least expect it.
> Jeanette, aformentioned and BCC'd is a nurse and will find
> it instructional.
>
>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
>
> It's a far more detailed account of the total incident than
> I'd seen before - and may even be correct :-).
>
> I'd recommend that everyone who has anything whatever to do
> with safety systems, backup systems, multi-person checklists
> etc read this as an excellent example of he said-I
> thought-it wasn't-they should have .... CRASH.
>
> Utterly amazing sequence of events and failings and
> misunderstandings.
>
> Below the " ... leaving the circuit breaker tagged (which
> masked the fact
> that it was no longer pulled ... " is the sort of thing that
> kills people.
>
> A smallest fragment:
>
> " Whilst the aircraft was being prepared for its return to
> Edmonton, a maintenance worker decided to investigate the
> problem with the faulty FQIS. In order to test the system he
> re-enabled the second channel, at which point the fuel
> gauges in the cockpit went blank. He was then called away to
> perform a dripstick measurement of fuel remaining in the
> tanks. Distracted, he failed to disable the second channel,
> leaving the circuit breaker tagged (which masked the fact
> that it was no longer pulled). The FQIS was now completely
> unserviceable and the fuel gauges were blank."
>
>         Russell
>
> >> Remember the Gimli glider!!!!
> >
> > Yeah, that's a particularly good reference on unit
> > conversion errors...
> >   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
> > (I first heard about it from a Canadian.  It's well known
> > there, where
> > pulling a Gimli Glider is now slang for royally screwing
> > up.  Mostly only
> > aviation buffs know about the incident elsewhere.)
> >
> > On that topic... I saw recently on the Mojave Airport mail
> > list (on
> > Yahoo Groups) that the Gimli Glider 767, which was
> > repaired after the
> > 1983 incident and continued passenger service for 25
> > years, was retired
> > on Jan 1 and is now parked at Mojave.  It used the
> > callsign "Glider One"
> > and had the 1983 incident crew aboard.
>
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