1983 - An Air Canada B767-200 runs out of fuel
at 41,000 feet while approximately halfway through its flight from Montreal to
Edmonton. The crew was able to glide the aircraft safely to an emergency landing
at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, Manitoba.
As soon as the wheels touched the runway, the brakes were fully
applied blowing out two of the aircraft's tyres. The unlocked nose wheel
collapsed causing the aircraft's nose to scrape along the ground. None of the 61
passengers was seriously hurt during the landing.
The subsequent investigation revealed corporate failures and
minor human errors which combined to overcome built-in safeguards. In addition,
fuel loading was miscalculated through a misunderstanding of the recently
adopted metric system which replaced the Imperial system.
The incident has become known as The Gimli
Glider.
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