Gimli Glider
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gimli-glider-175-6216402
title:
Gimli Glider
text:
Air Canada Flight 143, commonly known as the Gimli Glider, was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on Saturday, July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,500 m), midway through the flight. The flight crew successfully glided the Boeing 767 to an emergency landing at a former Royal Canadian Air Force base in Gimli, Manitoba, which had been converted to a racetrack, Gimli Motorsports Park. It resulted in no serious injuries to pa
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Airliner involved in a 1983 emergency landing
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
date created:
2002-12-22T22:09:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T04:20:36Z
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13
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