Saturday, December 20, 2008

deadly glide

This is the first commercial jumbo jet boeing 767 successfully made a glide landing on Glimni , Canada... Plane fill up with hundred passengers while traveling from Montreal to Edmonton, Canada, encountered low fuel warning on 30K feet above ground. The outcome was two engines were shut down and the plane was gliding on the air. The only way to survive was to land the aircraft at a short runway located at Glimni which is 70KM away. About to reach Glimni, The pilot discovered the plane speed was too fast and might overshoot the runway.. Therefore, the pilot turned his plane to side way in order to create more resistance to reduce the speed. About to touch down, the plane on track to the runway and landed successfully. hundred on board life are saved.

After going through investigation, Investigator root-caused the problem to be the fuel gauge processor's system board faulty. Dang! a faulty inductor coil in the board caused the plane nearly crash. As a electrical engineer, we got to be very cautious in our work in order not to cause catastrophe in future... Good lesson!

posted by kevin tham @ 10:01 PM   3 Comments

3 Comments:

At December 22, 2008 at 8:19 PM , Blogger goooooood girl said...

your blog is feel good......

 
At December 24, 2008 at 8:24 PM , Blogger candygan said...

merry x'mas !!!

 
At December 25, 2008 at 7:30 AM , Blogger Jooh said...

merry christmas!!!!!

 

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