>
>  AFAIR, while it is ultimately "The Captain's Fault!", my
> recollection is that he did well  but not well enough to beat Murphy - bu=
t
> redeemed himself well at the end.
>
>
I have nothing but respect for the pilots of that plane. Yes, mistakes were
made by all to get in that position, I am hard pressed to believe that many
other pilots could have put that plane down with as little damage as they
did. Definitely worth the read for anybody that has even a passing interest
in such things.

My faded memory puts the barest sketch of an outline here: jetliner full of
people at altitude runs out of fuel. Fate smiles. The pilot just happens to
also be a private glider pilot, having previously trained at a (now
disused) runway very close to their location. He proceeds to do a dead
stick landing in a 767. Zero loss of life. Plane flew out of the airport a
week or so later.

Many details skipped here, but my hat's off to the pilot.

-Denny
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