It was supposed to be a routine overnight flight from Toronto to Lisbon. 293 passengers and 13 crew members boarded Air Transat Flight 236 on August 24, 2001, expecting to land in Portugal after seven hours. What they got instead was one of the most miraculous emergency landings in aviation history. At 39,000 feet over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, both engines failed. The plane had run out of fuel. No power. No thrust. Just 100 tons of metal and people gliding toward the ocean. The pilots had one chance: glide the plane 75 miles to a small island…


