Air Canada Flight 143: 5 Amazing Facts About The Story Of The Gimli Glider

The Gimli Glider (as Air Canada Flight 143 became known) is one of Canadian commercial history's most dramatic and remarkable events. On 23 July 1983, the Air Canada Boeing 767-200 airliner en route from Montreal to Edmonton ran out of fuel midway. Incredibly, the skilled pilots managed to glide the dead airliner onto an abandoned Royal Canadian Air Force base in Manitoba, saving not only everyone onboard but also the aircraft itself. Without a doubt, the story belongs in the chronicles of the most daring emergency landings ever undertaken.