Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. People in Gimli are marking the 30th anniversary of an event that made aviation history and became known as the Gimli Glider. In July ...

Thirty years after it miraculously glided into town with empty gas tanks, the “Gimli Glider” is looking for a new home. The famous plane is up for auction. On July 23, 1983, the Boeing 767 ran out of ...

Glider ran out of fuel mid-air in 1983 but coasted to a landing on an abandoned air strip in Gimli, Man. An Air Canada Boeing 767 that ran out of fuel more than 12,000 metres above the ground more ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Captain Robert Pearson will be once again touching down in Gimli, but this time for the grand opening of the ...

Parts of a commercial plane that ran out of fuel while 41,000 feet in the air, and narrowly avoided crashing, are returning to Manitoba's Interlake area. The story of the Gimli Glider, the Air Canada ...

It was a perfect prairie summer night along the shores of Lake Winnipeg. *No charge for 4 weeks then price increases to the regular rate of $19.00 plus GST every four weeks. Offer available to new and ...

BLENHEIM, ONT.—It gained notoriety when it dropped in unexpectedly at a former air base-turned-drag strip north of Winnipeg. Now, a former Air Canada Boeing 767 — dubbed the Gimli Glider — is up for ...

The Gimli Glider features studio interviews with the pilot Captain Bob Pearson copilot Maurice Quintal flight attendant Robert Desjardins eyewitness Kerry Seabrook and the General Director of the ...

Residents in the small town of Gimli, Manitoba, are celebrating today to mark 30 years since a Boeing 767 airliner made an emergency landing there after running out of fuel. While not widely known in ...

The emergency landing in 1983 is etched in pilot Robert Pearson's mind, the moment he pushed firmly on the brake pedals with both feet to slow Air Canada's new Boeing 767 jet after it touched down on ...