Flying on Empty

Mayday

8th October 2003 45 mins Season 1 Episode 4

On August 24, 2001, Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel while flying over the Atlantic Ocean. The pilots of the aircraft glide it to a safe landing on a runway at a naval base on an island in the Azores.

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