On a perfect prairie evening 42 years ago, an Air Canada jet fell silent above Lake Winnipeg — out of fuel, out of options, and yet destined to become one of the most astonishing feats in aviation ...
Sliding across frozen Lake Winnipeg, I was caught in medias res by a sudden belch of power from the AMG’s mighty V8. I tamed this big-boned Bavarian with an indelicate application of throttle, ...
Back in1983 an Air Canada 767-233 with 61 pasengers crash-landed onto a dragstrip at the former Royal Canadian Air Force base in Gimli, Manitoba. The base had been decommissioned and turned into a ...
The world-famous Gimli Glider is about to receive the National Geographic treatment. A London-based film crew from the iconic broadcaster will be in Gimli this month to capture the remarkable 1983 ...
What happens when a modern passenger jet suddenly loses all its power at cruising altitude? For the 69 people on board Air Canada Flight 143, the nightmare became reality. Known today as the “Gimli ...
The world-famous Gimli Glider is about to receive the National Geographic treatment. A London-based film crew from the iconic broadcaster will be in Gimli this month to capture the remarkable 1983 ...
From the “Gimli Glider” that ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet to general aviation pilots who selected empty tanks, a four-decade pattern of aviation accidents show that fuel management errors ...
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