Why nobody should ever fly on a 777

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Well, the headline read not able to "... maintain altitude, without fuel"

The only safe thing is, no plane will be lost in the skies. I think this is rather comforting

With aircraft, take-offs are voluntary; landings are mandatory.

[NeonSamurai]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

Well, they did screw up the math to start with...... Whether or not that's AC's or the pilots' fault is neither here nor there. They were faced with an impossible no win situation and pulled off an amazing feat.

The problem apparently was that the airline had not given them proper conversion ratios for converting pounds of fuel into liters. So the captain's math was right, just they were using the supplied erroneous conversion value. The other problem was they had not been given proper training regarding properly calculating fuel in metric values, and for some reason Air Canada had only started to switch from Imperial to Metric, but only for certain planes. There were other issues too, which is why the Aviation Safety Board cleared both the ground crew and pilots.