What the records say
- When
- 24 Aug 2001
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 42.73° N, 23.08° W
- Description
- 2001 aviation incident involving an Air Transat Airbus A330 over the North Atlantic Ocean
- Deaths
- 0
- Injured
- 18
- Cause
- fuel starvation
Air Transat Flight 236
2001 aviation accident in Portugal
Air Transat Flight 236 was a transatlantic flight bound for Lisbon, Portugal, from Toronto, Canada, that lost all engine power while flying over the Atlantic Ocean in the dark on August 24, 2001. The Airbus A330 ran out of fuel because of a fuel leak caused by improper maintenance.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Auf dem Weg von Toronto nach Lissabon geht einem Airbus A330 auf dem Air-Transat-Flug 236 über dem Atlantik der Kraftstoff aus”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Airbus A330-200 авиакомпании Air Transat из-за утечки топлива совершил самое длинное планирование среди реактивных самолётов”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sobre el océano Atlántico, el vuelo 236 de Air Transat, en su ruta desde Toronto (Canadá) hasta Lisboa (Portugal), se queda sin combustible debido a una fuga”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “越洋航空236號班機事故。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page