Air Canada’s Gimli Glider: A Cabin Crew Perspective

It was Saturday, July 23rd, 1983. Air Canada flight 143 was getting ready to depart Montreal before traveling on to Ottawa and Edmonton. The new Boeing 767 registered C-GAUN had 61 passengers on board and 8 crew. The captain was Robert Pearson and the first officer was Maurice Quintal. There were six cabin crew that day including Susan.

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