Flying on Empty

Flying on Empty

Available on Paramount+, Prime Video, Smithsonian Channel
S18 E12: Air Transat Flight 236 is five hours into its flight from Toronto to Lisbon when the pilots receive oil and fuel imbalance warnings. At first, they think the plane’s computer system is delivering false information, but they soon realize they are quickly leaking fuel into the Atlantic, turning their A330 into a 230-ton glider. Witness the crew’s desperate battle to reach land and save the 306 people aboard. Then follow investigators as they try to determine how a state-of-the-art airliner could suffer such a catastrophic failure?