Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. People in Gimli are marking the 30th anniversary of an event that made aviation history and became known as the Gimli Glider. In July ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Captain Robert Pearson attended the opening ceremony of the Gimli Glider Museum Exhibit in Gimli, Man., on ...

The Gimli Glider will be hitting the skies again soon — but now on your luggage. MotoArt, an American company that makes high-end furniture from old aircraft, is making 10,000 luggage tags out of the ...

Parts of a commercial plane that ran out of fuel while 41,000 feet in the air, and narrowly avoided crashing, are returning to Manitoba's Interlake area. The story of the Gimli Glider, the Air Canada ...

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. *Special ...

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The Gimli Glider features studio interviews with the pilot Captain Bob Pearson copilot Maurice Quintal flight attendant Robert Desjardins eyewitness Kerry Seabrook and the General Director of 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 in ...

BLENHEIM, ONT.—It gained notoriety when it dropped in unexpectedly at a former air base-turned-drag strip north of Winnipeg. Now, a former Air Canada Boeing 767 — dubbed the Gimli Glider — is up for ...

Twenty-five years after he pulled off a miracle in the air, retired pilot Bob Pearson was applauded, cheered and embraced by people in this small lakefront community north of Winnipeg. The hero's ...