The Pilot Who Landed a Plane With No Engines — Air Transat Flight 236

On August 24th 2001, an Air Transat Airbus A330 ran completely out of fuel over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Both engines died simultaneously at 39,000 feet. 306 people were on board. The nearest runway was 120 kilometres away. Captain Robert Piché had 19 minutes, no engine power, and exactly one attempt to land a 170-tonne aircraft on a military runway that ends at a cliff edge above the Atlantic Ocean. Every single person survived. This is the full story of Air Transat Flight 236 — the faulty seal that started everything, the 30-minute window where the disaster could have been stopped, the sideslip manoeuvre that is not in any commercial aviation procedure manual, and the investigation that revealed a system that failed long before the engines did.