Hey #Manitoba
at risk of either the copyright squad noticing or some other blower outfit just stealing my promo material... I'm for hire in the #Interlake, located in #Gimli RM, home of the famous #GimliGlider and a surfeit of Icelanders.
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#TIL (yesterday, really) about a 1983 aviation incident involving a Boeing 767 that ran out of fuel midway through the flight. The flight crew successfully glided the plane to an emergency landing.
"They tried out this same circumstances with several crews [in a flight simulator] and they all crashed."
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Good Morning #Canada
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 July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet, midway through the flight. The pilots brought the plane down safely to a old Air Force base near Gimli Manitoba, scattering car enthusiasts who were using the runway for racing.#CanadaIsAwesome #GimliGlider #AirCanada
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/when-a-metric-mix-up-led-to-the-gimli-glider-emergency-1.4754039 -
Gigantic #Boeing767 #glider
https://hawaii.hawaii.edu/math/Courses/Math100/Chapter1/Extra/CanFlt143.htm
"An amusing side-note to the Gimli story is that after Flight 143 had landed safely, a group of Air Canada mechanics were dispatched to drive down and begin effecting repair. They piled into a van with all their tools. They reportedly ran out of fuel en-route, finding themselves stranded somewhere in the backwoods of Manitoba."