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Originally Posted by Larryp
I used to have some patients who were ground engineers with Qantas, and they all said Boeing built the best planes.
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Yes Larry,the people at the service center in Brisbane,said the same-and the 767 is very reliable .
Many years ago,a Canadian 767 ran out of fuel mid flight! and ended up gliding many miles and landing safely,on an old runway.The pilot was a very good glider pilot (perhaps the main thing that saved all)-he somehow flew the plane side-ways to slow it down!,and then had knowledge of the old runway-only to find it had been turned into a race track-and was in use!
Was the first boeing that had liters instead of gallons,the fuel crew made a mistake,the flight crew did not pick up on it,there were some other reasons for near mishap.
Anyhow-that Canadian 767 is still in use! after all that time,and no nose gear landing-they call it 'the Gilmor glider' (after the old runway)
Will be a very sad day when there are no more of these beautiful planes left in Qantas fleet.Must be a wired feeling for the crew on this last flight of OGG (an all female crew on this last flight) hope Qantas can afford to give them tickets to get back home.