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  • 5/31/2025
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield. | dG1faDh4VTg3RGt5cTg
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00:00A state-of-the-art aircraft
00:06She's brand new.
00:07on a routine commercial flight
00:09Well, charged up and ready to go.
00:11carries unsuspecting passengers
00:12What was that?
00:14That's not right.
00:15lost in their stories of love and fear
00:18I hate flying.
00:20174, this is Winnipeg. Do you read?
00:22of missed opportunity
00:23I don't want it to be too late, Frank.
00:25and hopes for the future
00:27Winnipeg Center.
00:28Daddy!
00:30We've got a bigger problem than we thought.
00:32That plane's coming down!
00:3363 separate lives that become connected to a single destiny.
00:37We still have fuel starvation.
00:39Get out of there!
00:40No hydraulics, no power, no transponder.
00:43We must have dropped off the screen and won it back.
00:45It's gone. I lost it.
00:46When flight 174 runs out of fuel at 41,000 feet.
00:50Left engines flamed out.
00:52Just received reports of a Canada World Airways flight in distress.
00:56We won't make it.
00:57This plane's going down.
00:58Sir, shut your stupid mouth.
01:02Now all anyone can do is pray that Captain Pearson...
01:05Are we going down?
01:06Like hell we're going down.
01:07...can do the impossible.
01:09William Devane, Shelley Hack, Nicolas Torturo, Winston Record, and Marriott Hartley are plunging towards...
01:16A free fall.
01:18This is a mayday.
01:19Free fall flight 174.

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