A Boeing 767 Ran Out of Fuel and Became a Glider With 61 Passengers on Board

The maths was checked. "Mathematically correct." And a brand new jet still ran out of fuel over Canada. A Mars spacecraft, an airliner, a bridge and a warship: disasters where the number was right, and nobody checked what it was measured in. What their official records actually say, including the parts the popular stories get wrong. Greg is fictional. The Converter is fictional. Everything else is from the primary record (sources below). CHAPTERS 0:00 "Mathematically correct" 0:41 Mars Climate Orbiter (1999) 2:36 The Gimli Glider (1983) 5:45 The Hall of Units: a bridge, a warship, a report 7:24 The fix 8:13 What's the worst unit mix-up you've seen? What's the worst unit mix-up you've ever seen? Tell us in the comments. MORE FROM SUNNY SIDE TOP ▶ Every Company Has a Greg:    • Every Company Has a Greg   ▶ The $900 Million Checkbox:    • The $900 Million Checkbox   ▶ One Test Email Turned Into Half a Billion Emails | Reply All Apocalypse:    • One Test Email Turned Into Half a Billion ...   Subscribe:    / @sunnysidetop   SOURCES (primary records) Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board, Phase I Report (10 Nov 1999) and Report on Project Management in NASA (13 Mar 2000) NASA/JPL news releases, 23 and 30 Sep 1999; JPL Universe, 1 Oct and 12 Nov 1999 Final Report of the Board of Inquiry into the Air Canada Boeing 767 C-GAUN accident at Gimli, Manitoba (April 1985) and its Interim Report (June 1984) House of Commons Debates (Hansard), Canada, 1983 Kanton Aargau, Staatskanzlei, media release "Brücke Laufenburg: Korrektur nötig" (24 Dec 2003); Deutscher Bundestag Drucksache 16/1612 Vasa Museum (vasamuseet.se): the ship's history, the inquest, the carpenter's rules, and its 2012 press release Narration: synthetic voice. Animation, music and sound effects made for this video. Documents, screens and slips shown are recreations.