Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI expect that most folks would be surprised to hear that Captain Bob Pearson was demoted for six months [0] after this landing, in which he side-slipped a commercial airliner with no functioning engines, and dodged two kids on bicycles on the Gimli 'runway' (read drag strip). Talk about a uniquely Canadian story - running out of fuel because of a mistake in Imperial to Metric unit conversion. This from someone who was in high school in 1978, The Year…
Ah yes, The Fundemental Failure Mode Theorem[0] at work: Complex systems usually operate in failure mode. Or, "That's why I'm skeptical of people who look at some catastrophic failure of a complex system and say, "Wow, the odds of this happening are astronomical. Five different safety systems had to fail simultaneously!" What they don't realize is that one or two of those systems are failing all the time, and it's up to the other three systems to prevent the failure…
Do not watch the movie version of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_from_the_Sky:_Flight_17...). It's inaccurate and overly dramatic.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 613
- Total comments
- 287
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10-23 | Gimli Glider: When systems go wrong. | RiderOfGiraffes | 26 | 9 |
| 2013-07-23 | Imperial to Metric system conversion error - Gimli Glider | suhair | 2 | 0 |
| 2014-05-01 | Gimli GliderFirst breakout | lelf | 176 | 80 |
| 2014-05-14 | Gimli Glider | lazydon | 2 | 0 |
| 2014-12-29 | 1983 plane crash caused by adoption of the metric system in Canada | AshFurrow | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-12-18 | Gimli GliderHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | numlocked | 385 | 198 |
| 2019-11-30 | Gimli Glider | 0db532a0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-08-02 | Gimli Glider | techolic | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-01-23 | Gimli Glider | untilted | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-05-08 | Gimli Glider | gkop | 10 | 0 |
| 2023-09-19 | Gimli Glider | thunderbong | 3 | 0 |