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 The Deadstick of Air Transat Flight 236
An Air-Transat Airbus A330 ran out of fuel over the mid-Atlantic on an overnight flight from Toronto to Lisbon on August 24, 2001. There were  291 passengers aboard of whom 10 suffered minor injuries escaping from the aircraft after it landed in the Azores.
Air Transat was fined and ordered to route its twin-engined jet aircraft closer to land, but the fine imposed related only to maintenance errors that resulted in the improper installation of an engine on the plane after receiving a service bulletin from Rolls-Royce warning that improper engine installation could result in insufficient clearances between the fuel line and other parts. 
The right side engine developed a ruptured fuel line and the pilots, not realising this, pumped large amounts of fuel from the undamaged left-wing tanks to the right-side where it poured overboard.
Is it a co-incidence however that the only two large, modern aircraft to run out of fuel on regular flights — turning them into massive, unwieldy gliders full of frightened passengers — were Canadian? In 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel and the pilot made an emergency "dead-stick" landing at a former military airfield in Gimli, Manitoba. Ever since, that incident has been known as the "Gimli Glider".
Flight 236 was even luckier. Both its Rolls-Royce engines quit from fuel starvation after Captain Robert Piche — belatedly realizing that he had a massive fuel leak — had already diverted to the Azores, the only speck of land for more than 1,600 kilometres. He had steered toward the Azores because of concern over the fuel supply.
Flight 236 was the first transatlantic airliner to run out of fuel over the Atlantic since jets replaced propeller-driven planes on long-haul routes. It was also the first time any airline holding a special long-range operating licence for twin-engined jet flights over water has lost both engines for any reason.

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