The Gimli Glider - UI Podcast #005

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2008

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The true story of a Boeing 767 that ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet and lost total power. With no airport within gliding range, find out how these courageous pilots dealt with this frightening life or death situation. Also, do you know which celebrity Nobel Prize physicist Max Born was the grandfather of? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	Useless Information.
1:11.0	Hi, I'm Steve Silverin and you're listening to a classic episode of the
1:14.6	Useless Information Podcast. The Gimli Glider story you're about to hear was first
1:19.2	released on January 29th of 2008, although metadata listed as February 1st.
1:25.0	Either way, I was only days into my podcast and career never imagining I'd still be doing it all these
1:30.6	years later.
1:31.6	I originally penned the story from my
1:34.0	useless information website in the late 1990s and then included in my second book
1:39.2	which is titled Limburg's artificial heart. The Gimley Glider story is one that I told to my science students every single year that I taught and it serves as a cautionary tale as to why one has to be extremely cautious with calculations.
1:54.2	And that's because a simple mistake could put many lives in danger.
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