Robert Piche
Air Transat Capt. Robert Piche has received the Canadian National Assembly Medal of Honor for gliding a fuel-depleted Airbus A330-200 and its 304 occupants to a safe landing on Terceira Island, Azores, on Aug. 4, 2001. A fuel leak caused both engines to shut down when Flight 236 was over the...
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