Pilot wasn't worried until he was on the ground and saw the boys on the runway. That's skill under pressure, beautiful.
Slipping a commercial aircraft successfully saving 69 people is CRAZY!!!!! Im an crew chief in the US air force and this completely blows me away. Bob Pearson should be known around the world.
My father worked for Air Canada back then and I remember Bob well. As a kid, I've been on several flights that he was the captain of. A very skilled pilot
An incredible story. Putting a jet liner in a sideslip like that, with no engines! Never been tried before. Then he puts it right on the runway. Jeepers, give that crew a medal.
if that pilot had not been a glider pilot this would have had a much different ending, a true hero because of his knowledge
Aviation moments like these remind me how we all cheered for Scully landing in the river. He even got a movie. But this guy also performed a miracle — I only know about it because the story was in a Flying magazine at the time. What a story!
My favorite episodes are the aviation moments when the passengers think they’re going to die but everyone survives, including the plane when it lands in one piece.
Man basically Tokyo drifted a passenger plane into an abandoned runway — what an absolute beast of a pilot, giving us insane aviation moments.
I did a side slip in an actual glider, but seeing it done on a large commercial airliner is something else — those are unforgettable aviation moments.
My grandparents were 2 of the passengers on this flight. Aviation moments like that stuck with them forever. I remember my grandfather saying this was the first time in his life he was scared on a plane — and he flew F4 Phantoms during the Vietnam War into combat. Nothing compared to these aviation moments.