The world-famous Gimli Glider is about to receive the National Geographic treatment. A London-based film crew from the iconic ...

Steven SukkauLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterWinnipeg SunThe world-famous Gimli Glider is about to receive the National ...

But a metric conversion mix-up before takeoff meant the plane had half the fuel it needed to reach its destination, and it started running out near Red Lake, Ont., about 225 kilometres from Gimli.

It might have been one of the worst air disasters in Canadian history, but, it wasn’t. On this day, July 23 1983, an almost brand new, at the time high-tech passenger jet, was scheduled to take ...

Caption: Parts of the Gimli Glider, an Air Canada Boeing 767 that coasted to a landing on an abandoned landing strip after it ran out of fuel mid-flight in 1983, are returning to the Interlake.

GIMLI — Thirty-four years to the day after a new Air Canada 767 jet suddenly ran out of fuel and was forced to land like a glider in Gimli, a museum commemorating the event is taking off. The Gi ...

"My heart leapt into my throat." Fortunately, the plane missed the boys and other onlookers by 300 metres. On Saturday, July 23, 1983, the jet landed safely and a legend was born.

The only injuries were to passengers who exited by the plane's rear emergency slide. Because the nose landing gear was not extended, the tail of the plane ended up three storeys in the air. 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 ...

Fortunately, the plane missed the boys and other onlookers by 300 metres. On Saturday, July 23, 1983, the jet landed safely and a legend was born. The "Gimli Glider," a Boeing 767 that has become ...