In 2001, an Air Transat jet carrying 306 people ran out of fuel over the Atlantic after a leak; Captain Robert Piche glided the powerless Airbus for about 19 minutes to a runway in the Azores, and everyone survived

A routine transatlantic journey from Canada to Portugal became a fight for survival when an Air Transat passenger jet lost both its engines over the

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