Is it possible to land the aeroplane if all the engines shuts down...?

Question

Is it possible to land the aeroplane if all the engines shuts down...?

Answer 1

yes. u should watch more films.

this always happens wen an airliner is involved

Answer 2

Yes it has happened time and time again..you have to keep descending while gliding to maintain your airspeed.

Chances are that u will have to land on the first try (you won't be able to turn around and make another approach).

Answer 3

Yes, it is possible

Answer 4

If you mean an aircraft like boeig 737 yes it is posible but is very dificult and depents weather, ground condition and the place. If you mean small type of aircraft like cessna it is very easy (for a veteran pilot) also is depend from weather and the ground

have nice day  

Answer 5

The most interesting occurance of this has got to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat... in August 2001.

The most important paragraph is the first one.  Instead of believing he had a fuel leak, he kept feeding fuel to the leak.  Junior did the math several times and insisted that the engine with the leak could not possibly be "consuming" that much fuel.  Jocko in the left seat (with his seniority) disregarded the valuable information that Junior had calculated.  Jocko got a medal for keeping the glider airborne and putting it down safely.  Never mind that he dumped all that usable fuel overboard out of disregard for teamwork and safety.  He actually recieved positive recognition from his airline after this happened.  

Answer 6

Assuming that you have a PLACE to land it, it it theoretically possible to land any unpowered airplane.  It is called a "dead-stick landing".  The main variable is the skill of the pilot.  Any aircraft will glide (fly without power).  Some will glide further than others and have a less rapid sink rate.  A classic example is the case of the space shuttle.  It is a very heavy spacecraft (aircraft when it enters the atmosphere) with small lifting surfaces (wings), yet it lands at Cape Canaveral and Edwards AFB with no power.  It glides like a brick, but it is controllable and, as you can see on TV, it can land with no engines running.   Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Possible?  Yes.  Probable?  Yes.

Answer 8

Of course. Maybe not smaller planes. But larger planes yes. They'll glide until they hit the ground. At landing jets have a harder time. If a smaller plane like for instance a private plane you just fly around it maybe much harder to land. (You can buy big parachutes for these smaller planes actually.)

Answer 9

There is a famous incedent where an Air France jet flying from America to France because of a fault it ran out of fuel half way across the Atlantic, the pilots gliding the aircraft and through great skill diverted and landed at a Portugeses military airfield on the Azores, saving all on board.

So to answer your question yes.

If you want another example what about the Space Shuttle, on re-entry it becomes a very heavy glider

Answer 10

Manouk's answer is FoIT.

I have been in a aircraft where I had to shut down the one and only engine and it is very stressfull, because you have only one chance to land.  

In fact, the stupid ATC tower, came on and tried to kill us, during the most stressful part, short final, and I was with a student, and interrupted me to ask if I thought I was going to land in this time, because he was rolling emergency equipment that wasn't there yet.

I told him, I'll get back to you.  (a##h##e).  Then when I knew landing was assured, I told him we'd be landing.  My student pilot, whose father had brought him flying for hundreds of hours, looked at my landing with no power and exclaimed, "We are gold!"

Answer 11

Yep, you then have an expensive glider. As long as you're within gliding range of an airport you're fine, albeit with only one shot at it, just like any glider.  It's been done more than once, including by me, albeit on that occasion in a Cessna single, involving a large field and some startled sheep . . .

Answer 12

Of course but it would be a pretty hard landing,but if you saying like they run out or a pipe break then ya they can glide but not for a very long time perhaps for about 1 or so but ya other than that they can still fly.

Answer 13

depends on what type. jet aircraft plummet to the ground in a huge explosion . while propeller driven air craft can glide to ground.. still may crash but hopefully not that bad

Answer 14

Yes. You can Google about the Gimli Glider, an Air Canada 767 (flight 143) that took off from Montreal in 1983 with only about half the amount of fuel needed because someone messed up the conversion of fuel from one unit to another (that airplane had a faulty fuel quantity system). It glided and landed on a former airbase at Gimli Manitoba that one of the pilot remembered flying off from years before.

There was another incident, involving an Airbus A330, Air Transat flight 236, which completely ran out of fuel over the Atlantic due to a leak in the fuel system, and glided and landed to an airstrip in the Azores in 2001.

Answer 15

Of course it is, but the aircraft is much harder to control with no engines - I've had to do it before.   (I used to fly a Learjet 45 for a charter company and there was one time where I ran out of fuel.)

And for Bit Pilsman, that was the Gimli Glider (Air Canada)

Answer 16

yes, i think from a crusing height a 747 can glide for 59 miles, weather permitting

Answer 17

We practice power-off landings all the time.  I fly a Cessna 172 and have been working toward my private license.  About a dozen times now, the instructor has pulled the power back to idle to simulate a power-off landing.  Actually cutting the engines is too dangerous for practice, but idle is pretty close.

We've practiced from all points in the traffic pattern - except immediately after takeoff where you don't have much choice but to land straight ahead.  And while we don't do practice forced off-field landings, I get asked all the time what I'd do if the engines were to quit right now.

Answer 18

there are two instances that i can think of where this type of event happened.

first: Air Transat Flight 236 had both engines shut down prematurely because of a fuel leak in one of the fuel lines. further made worse by the pilot cross feeding fuel from one tank to another, virtually doubling the rate of the leak.

second: Air Canada Flight 143 "The Gimli Glider": this flight took place when Canada first introduced the metric system, litres and kilograms instead of gallons and pounds. instead of putting 22,300 kilograms of fuel inside the tanks, engineers put 22,300 pounds inside the tanks. making this flight leave with half the fuel they though they had.

fortunately both aircraft were able to glide and land safely without any fatalities

Answer 19

It is possible, it just depends on the glide range of the aircraft. Helicopters and light aircraft tend to have much better numbers than a large jet. It also depends on what stage of flight the aircraft is in. If the engines go out on take-off or landing, there is not much that can be done on any aircraft.

Answer 20

Yes. They glide.... I recommend you don't go flying anytime soon..

Answer 21

Not only can it be done, it becomes necessary if you can't restart. That is why you always fly high. The higher you fly, the farther you can glide. Think glider. Most have no engine and have to be towed aloft by a powered plane. In the case you are asking about they are towed aloft by their own engines.

Answer 22

Yes, this happened to a 757 years ago. They screwed up the fuel load due to conversion rates.

They lost both engines and made it to a runway at an old closed airport.

Don't recall the dates and location exactly.

USAF fighter pilots practice unpowered landings. They were doing this

when the F16 collided with the C130 at Pope AFB.

Thanks Katie, and Daniel C, I couldn't remember the term dead stick last night, may have been the wine.

Answer 23

of course they "land"

now how pretty that landing is - that's a different question!