Re:Old Aircraft, New Electronics (Score 2)

Nope, it was a brand new 767. There's an excellent story about it here. Also, the pilot was commended, not fired. He flew gliders in his spare time, and had the expertise to bring the jet down when there wasn't even an official procedure on dealing with a failure of both engines.

From that page:

The flight crew had never been trained how to perform the drip calculations. To be safe they re-ran the numbers three times to be absolutely, positively sure the refuelers hadn't made any mistakes--each time using 1.77 pounds/liter as the specific gravity factor. This factor was written on the refueler's slip and was used on all of the other planes in Air Canada's fleet. The factor the refuelers and the crew should have used on the brand new, all-metric 767 was .8 kg/liter of kerosene.