EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE something goes so badly wrong in an aircraft that not even
the designers or manufacturers considered it plausible.
When it happens in a jet fighter you cut your losses, curse your luck and escape on
the ejection seat. In an airliner, you stay in the game, play your best cards - and
stretch your wits to the limit!
Here's the scenario - you're the captain on a long haul flight over the ocean in a
modern twin-jet airliner. You notice a fuel imbalance developing between the fuel
tanks. You read the checklists and take the appropriate action, but what you fail to
recognize is that the imbalance is caused by a fuel leak on an engine pylon! In due
course both engines flame-out from fuel starvation, and you're now the commander
of the world's biggest glider.
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