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yvr01
August 22, 2002, 10:36 PM
Taken from www.radio-canada.ca (http://www.radio-canada.ca)

Robert Piché honoré à Washington
Mise à jour le jeudi 22 août 2002, 20 h 49 .
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.Le pilote québécois Robert Piché a été honoré jeudi soir à Washington par l'Association des pilotes de lignes aériennes d'Amérique du Nord, qui regroupe 66 000 membres. Robert Piché, un ancien pilote de brousse, avait réussi à poser un Airbus A-330-200 qui s'était retrouvé en panne sèche au milieu de l'océan Atlantique, il y a presque un an jour pour jour.
L'appareil de la compagnie canadienne Air Transat, qui transportait 304 personnes, avait plané pendant 150 kilomètres avant de se poser en catastrophe dans l'île de Terceira, aux Açores, dans l'océan Atlantique, en raison d'une fuite de carburant. Lorsque la fuite a été détectée, le pilote a averti les autorités qu'il ne pensait pas avoir assez de carburant pour atteindre l'île de Terceira et qu'il risquait de devoir se poser en mer. Il aurait toutefois réussi à faire planer l'appareil durant 18 minutes jusqu'à l'aéroport. Les pneus ont éclaté à l'atterrissage et un incendie a été rapidement maîtrisé. Neuf personnes ont été légèrement blessées. La majorité des 291 passagers étaient Canadiens.
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Note that Dirk De Jager, first officer, received the same prize. In his speach he mentioned the wonderful work of the crew, Again BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO!!!
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alitalia_747
August 23, 2002, 10:39 AM
GOOD FOR THEM! images/icons/smile.gif images/icons/smile.gif

alitalia_747
August 23, 2002, 01:15 PM
MONTREAL (Reuters) - A Canadian pilot who astounded the aviation world by gliding his stricken jetliner, with 304 people on board, to a safe landing on an island in the Atlantic Ocean, has been given a special flying award.



The Air Line Pilots Association ( news - web sites), the union representing some 66,000 pilots from Canada and the United States, gave its Superior Airmanship award to Air Transat pilot Robert Piche and his first officer Dirk De Jager at its annual banquet in Washington on Thursday.

"The spirit of airmanship that is involved here is the amazing feat of taking of airplane that lost both its engines at 35,000 feet and piloting it... 70 miles and making a precision pinpoint landing on a tiny speckled island," the association's spokesman, John Mazor, told Reuters.

Piche, a married father of three, became a national hero in Canada and made headlines around the world on August 24, 2001, when he brought a Lisbon-bound Airbus 330 to a safe, "dead-stick" landing on the Azores after a fuel leak left the jetliner's engines dead over the Atlantic.

Diverting to a military airstrip, Piche and De Jager brought the heavy aircraft through a harrowing 18-minute gliding descent and wrestled it to a grinding halt on the tarmac, blowing eight of its 12 tires.

Less than a dozen of the 291 passengers were treated for minor injuries, most inflicted as they evacuated the plane.

yvr01
August 23, 2002, 07:31 PM
Sorry Trolly, I should have translated it on my post, but I was out of time.......

TrollyDollyBoy
August 23, 2002, 11:34 PM
Can anyone translate it into ENGLISH!!?

Ryanair
August 25, 2002, 03:50 PM
Wow ... they deserve an award!
Good job to them!