This is a list of commercial airline flights that were forced to glide in mid-flight.
| Date | Flight | Aircraft | Location | Cause | Result | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 1963 | Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-124 | Tupolev Tu-124 | Leningrad, Soviet Union | Ran out of fuel while waiting for ground crews to prepare for an emergency landing | Ditched into the Neva River | 0 |
| 6 September 1971 | Paninternational Flight 112 | BAC One-Eleven | Hasloh, Germany | Both engines failed after takeoff because the water-injection engine thrust-augmentation system had inadvertently been filled with jet fuel instead of water | Attempted to land on a highway but collided with a bridge | 22 |
| 7 December 1976 | Aeroflot Flight N-929 | Yak-40 | near Armovir, USSR | As a consequence of air traffic controller error. Made an emergency landing because of the total fuel consumption in a field near a military airfield Armavir | When landing on a field no one was hurt. The aircraft was badly damaged, was decommissioned | 0 |
| 4 April 1977 | Southern Airways Flight 242 | Douglas DC-9-31 | New Hope, Georgia | Both engines failed due to water and hail ingestion when the aircraft flew through a severe thunderstorm | Crashed while attempting to land on a highway; fatalities included 9 bystanders on ground | 72 |
| 28 December 1978 | United Airlines Flight 173[1] | Douglas DC-8-61 | Portland, Oregon | Ran out of fuel while crew investigated stuck landing gear | Crashed on approach to Portland (Oregon) International Airport | 10 |
| 12 June 1980 | Air Wisconsin Flight 965[2] | Swearingen Metro II | Near Valley, Nebraska | Both engines lost power when the aircraft flew through heavy rain at low altitude | There was insufficient altitude to regain power. The aircraft landed hard in a field, bounced, and flipped. | 13 |
| 24 June 1982 | British Airways Flight 9 | Boeing 747-236B | West Java, Indonesia | Lost power in all four engines after flying through a cloud of volcanic ash | The engines were restarted after leaving the cloud, aircraft had been without power for over 10 minutes. | 0 |
| 5 May 1983 | Eastern Air Lines Flight 855 | Lockheed L-1011 TriStar | Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida | Crew shut down an engine due to low oil pressure, then the remaining two engines failed due to loss of oil. After gliding for five minutes the shut-down engine was successfully restarted | Made emergency landing at Miami International Airport; the running engine could not generate enough thrust for the aircraft to taxi to the gate | 0 |
| 23 July 1983 | Air Canada Flight 143 | Boeing 767-233 | Gimli, Manitoba, Canada | Ran out of fuel as a result of refuelling calculation error | Glided to emergency landing | 0 |
| 19 August 1983 | United Airlines unknown flight number[3] | Boeing 767-222 | Over the Arapahoe National Forest west of Denver, Colorado | Both engines flamed out due to fuel system contamination | Crew got the engines restarted at 15,000 feet. Successfully landed in Denver. | 0 |
| 31 March 1986 | United Airlines unknown flight number[4] | Boeing 767-222 | Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Francisco, California | One of the crew inadvertently shut off fuel to both engines, for unknown reasons. This was the same aircraft involved in the United 1983 engine-flameout incident. | Crew got the engines restarted; returned to San Francisco. | 0 |
| 30 June 1987 | Delta Airlines Flight 810[5][6] | Boeing 767-232 | Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles | Captain responded to an EICAS alert by reaching for the electronic engine control switches to disengage them, but inadvertently pulled the fuel shutoff switches instead | Restarted engines at 500-600 feet altitude; continued to scheduled destination of Cincinnati, Ohio. There the crew was relieved of duty. The captain's transport license was subsequently revoked by the FAA. | 0 |
| 24 May 1988 | TACA Flight 110 | Boeing 737-3T0 | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | Dual engine flameout due to water ingestion | Glided to emergency landing | 0 |
| 8 January 1989 | British Midland Flight 92 | Boeing 737-400 | Kegworth, United Kingdom | Wrong engine shut down after single engine failure | Crash landed short of runway | 47 |
| 3 September 1989 | Varig Flight 254 | Boeing 737-241 | Amazon Rainforest near São José do Xingu, Brazil | Ran out of fuel as a result of navigational error | Made a forced landing in the jungle | 13 |
| 15 December 1989 | KLM Flight 867 | Boeing 747-406M | Redoubt Volcano, Anchorage, Alaska | Lost power in all four engines after flying through a cloud of volcanic ash | Engines restarted, landed safely | 0 |
| 25 January 1990 | Avianca Flight 52 | Boeing 707-321B | Cove Neck, New York | Ran out of fuel while in holding pattern | Crash landing | 73 |
| 27 December 1991 | Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 | MD-80 | Gottröra, Sweden | Engines ingested ice, causing surging. When the captain tried throttle back to clear the surge, a system called Automatic Thrust Restoration(ATR) which was unknown to the pilots, increased thrust until the engines destroyed themselves | Crash landing, 4 min into flight | 0 |
| 1 February 1994 | American Eagle, operated by Simmons Airlines, Flight 3641[7] | Saab 340B | New Roads, Louisiana | Both engines oversped and severely damaged by improper propeller pitch setting | Landed with no engine, hydraulic or electrical power, overran the runway, and came to a stop in a sugar cane field. | 0 |
| 26 September 1994 | Аirline "Cheremshanka" Flight 87468 | Yak-40 | near Vanavara, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia | Ran out of fuel while flight to an alternate airfield. | Tried to make an emergency landing on the bank of the river Chamba, but failed. Killing all passengers and crew. | 28 |
| 23 November 1996 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 | Boeing 767-200ER | Indian Ocean near Comoros | Ran out of fuel after being hijacked | Crash landing in ocean | 122 |
| 12 July 2000 | Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378 | Airbus A310-304 | Vienna, Austria | Ran out of fuel as a result of landing gear not retracted | Glided for about 20 km before crash landing 500 metres short of the runway | 0 |
| 24 August 2001 | Air Transat Flight 236 | Airbus A330-24 | Terceira Island, Azores | Ran out of fuel as a result of a fuel leak | Emergency landing. Aircraft glided for 19 minutes. | 0 |
| 16 January 2002 | Garuda Indonesia Flight 421[8] | Boeing 737-3Q8 | near Yogyakarta, Indonesia | Both engines flamed out in heavy rain | The crew did not follow proper restart procedures and failed to restart either engine. Ditched in the Bengawan Solo River. | 1 |
| 6 August 2005 | Tuninter Flight 1153 | ATR 72 | Mediterranean Sea near Sicily | Ran out of fuel as a result of an incorrect model of fuel quantity indicator having been installed | Ditched | 16 |
| 4 January 2008 | Transaven unknown flight number[9] | Let L-410UVP-E3 | offshore from Los Roques Airport, Venezuela | Both engines failed for unknown reasons (per pilot radio report) | Disappeared; presumably ditched into the Atlantic Ocean | 14 |
| 17 January 2008 | British Airways Flight 38 | Boeing 777-236 | London Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom | Fuel lines got blocked by ice causing double engine failure | Crashed 300 meters short of the runway | 0 |
| 15 January 2009 | US Airways Flight 1549 | Airbus A320-214 | New York City | Complete engine failure from bird strikes moments after takeoff from La Guardia | Glided along and then successfully ditched in the Hudson River. | 0 |
| 11 February 2010 | Trigana Air Service Flight 168 (or possibly 162[10]) | ATR 42 | Samboja, Indonesia | On approach to Samarinda, the left engine's control unit failed. The crew shut down the engine and elected to divert to Balikpapan, as it has a longer runway and more safety services. However, on approach to Balikpapan, the right engine's control unit also failed. The prop failed to feather and the aircraft was unable to glide to the airport. | Made a forced landing in a rice paddy. The landing gear collapsed, but all aboard survived. Still under investigation as of December 2011. | 0 |