Packed airliner glided for 20 minutes over Atlantic

Human error caused a fuel leak in an Airbus 300 and inadequate safety procedures led to the Canadian jetliner’s crew having to glide for almost 20 minutes after losing power, according to an official report today.

Eleven people were injured, none seriously, when the Air Transat plane with more than 304 people aboard descended more than 30,000 feet without power and made an emergency landing in Portugal’s mid-Atlantic Azores Islands in August 2001.