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 On a Wing and a Prayer: Amazing Story of The Gimli Glider
On a Wing and a Prayer: Amazing Story of The Gimli Glider
On 23 July 1983, Air Canada Flight 143 ran completely out of fuel at 41,000 feet, about halfway through its flight from Montreal to Edmonton (due to a misunderstanding of the metric system). The amazing story of how the powerless plane made a successful emergency landing at an abandoned airbase in Gimli, and the Captain with balls of steel. picked by cactushair 4 months ago
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