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	'Gimli Glider' lands without fuel - "On This Day" - CBC Archives
		The pilot, Capt. Robert Pearson, was an experienced glider pilot (he co-owned a Blanik L-13 sailplane).
		First Officer Maurice Quintal had once been stationed at the Royal Canadian Air Force base at Gimli and was familiar with the landing strips.
		The Gimli base was full of families and campers, and the runway was being used for go-cart races.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-69-240-1155-20/that_was_then/life_society/gimli_glider (686 words)

	Gimli Glider - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gimli Glider is the name given to a famous incident in aviation history, on July 23, 1983, when a Boeing 767-200 jet, Air Canada Flight 143, ran out of fuel at 40,000 feet over northern Canada and had to glide to a landing at a former airbase at Gimli, Manitoba.
		Unbeknownst to Quintal, since his time in the service Gimli had "gone public" and was now being used for drag racing.
		The "Gimli Glider", registration C-GAUN, (Fin 604, look on the nose gear door or top of the tail, hence Fin number) is still in service with Air Canada as of May 2005.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Gimli_Glider (1181 words)

	Gimli
		The mother colony of several north American Icelandic settlements, Gimli developed after a series of natural disasters forced ICELANDERS to leave their island in 1874-76.
		Some 200 arrived near Gimli in October 1875 to settle New Iceland, a tract of land outside the boundaries of Manitoba reserved for their use by the Dominion government.
		On 23 July 1983 Gimli Airport was the landing site for the "Gimli Glider," an Air Canada 767 en route from Montréal to Edmonton, which ran out of fuel over Red Lake, Ont, and glided to a safe landing at Gimli.
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	Gimli Glider
		The Gimli Glider is the name given to a famous incident in aviation history, on July 23, 1983, when a Boeing 767, Air Canada Flight 143, ran out of fuel at 40,000 feet over northern Canada and had to make a gliding landing at a former airbase at Gimli, Manitoba.
		Seconds later the right side engine stopped, and the 767 was a glider, and the cockpit voice recorder could easily pick out the "oh f*uc".
		Unbeknownst to Quintal, since being in the service Gimli had "gone public" and was now being used for drag racing, and to make matters worse, on this particular day the area was covered with cars and campers for "Family Day".
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gi/Gimli_Glider.html (846 words)

	Gimli Glider: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Gimli Glider Gimli Glider The Gimli Glider is the name given to a famous...former airbase at Gimli, Manitoba.
		The Gimli Glider is the name given to a famous incident in aviation history, on July 23, 1983, when a Boeing 767, Air Canada Flight 143, ran out of fuel at 40,000 feet over northern Canada and had to make a gliding landing at a former airbase at Gimli, Manitoba.
		Unbeknownst to Quintal, since being in the service Gimli had "gone public" and was now being used for drag racing, and to make matters worse, on this particular day the area was covered with cars and campers for "Family Day".
	www.encyclopedian.com /gi/Gimli-Glider.html (976 words)

	GIMLI GLIDER : Encyclopedia Entry
		Gimli Glider is a nickname given to an aircraft involved in an infamous incident in aviation history.
		Unbeknownst to Quintal, since his time in the service, Gimli had become a public airport, and had decommissioned one of its parallel runways, which was now being used for road racing.
		The "Gimli Glider", registration C-GAUN, (Fin 604, on the nose gear door or top of the tail, hence Fin number) is still in service with Air Canada as of 2006.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Gimli_Glider (1506 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gimli, Manitoba (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gimli is a rural municipality in south-central Manitoba, Canada.
		Gimli is the site of a disused Royal Canadian Air Force base, which is now used by the Gimli Gliding Centre and the Royal Canadian Air Cadets.
		The Gimli Glider after landing The Gimli Glider is the name given to a famous incident in aviation history.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gimli%2C-Manitoba (448 words)

	Glider information - Search.com
		The first glider seems to have been designed in 500 BC by Lu Ban a contemporary of Confucius, although this was more of a toy than a genuine aircraft.
		A glider was even built secretly by POWs as a potential escape method at Colditz Castle near the end of the war in 1944.
		Gliders are equipped with an altimeter, compass and an air-speed indicator, and often with a radio, though in some countries the radio is not compulsory.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Glider (2743 words)

	The Gimli Glider / Air Canada
		To land an airplane in the midst of all of this activity was certain disaster.
		Gimli was uncontrolled so Pearson had to rely on visual cues.
		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.
	www.wadenelson.com /gimli.html (2806 words)

	The Gimli Glider
		Gimli's inactive runway had been "carved up" into a variety of racing courses, including the aforementioned dragstrip.
		Approaching Gimli Pearson and Quintal made their next unpleasant discovery: The RAT didn't supply hydraulic pressure to the 767's landing gear.
		Gimli was uncontrolled so Pearson had to rely on visual cues.
	www.elchineroconcepts.com /Technology%20Folder/gimli_glider.htm (2477 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Gimli Glider
		Gimli Glider is a nickname given to an aircraft involved in an infamous incident in aviation history.
		Unbeknownst to Quintal, since his time in the service, RCAF Station Gimli had become a public airport, and had decommissioned one of its parallel runways, which was now being used for road racing.
		As they approached Gimli, the pilots attempted a power-off "gravity drop" of the main landing gear, but the nose wheel, because it swung forward against the force of the wind, would not lock.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Gimli_Glider (1442 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Gliders Work"
		Gliders, along with most other aircraft, are designed to have skins that are as smooth as possible to allow the plane to slip more easily through the air.
		Gliders use the same control surfaces (movable sections of the wing and tail) that are found on conventional planes to control the direction of flight.
		When landing the glider, the pilot needs to be able to control the glide path (the rate of descent relative to distance traveled) in order to bring the glider down in the right location.
	travel.howstuffworks.com /glider.htm/printable (2716 words)

	ipedia.com: Gimli Glider Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gimli Glider is the name given to a famous incident in aviation history, on July 23, 1983, when a Boeing 767, Air Canada Flight 143, ran out of fuel at 40,000 feet over northern Canada and had to...
		The Gimli Glider is the name given to a famous incident in aviation history, on July 23, 1983, when a Boeing 767, Air Canada Flight 143, ran out of fuel at 40,000 feet over northern Canada and had to glide to a landing at a former airbase at Gimli, Manitoba.
		The "Gimli Glider", registration C-GAUN, is still in service with Air Canada as of July 2004.
	www.ipedia.com /gimli_glider.html (1159 words)

	Gimli Glider: Tutte le informazioni su Gimli Glider su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gimli Glider: Tutte le informazioni su Gimli Glider su Encyclopedia.it
		Il comandante Pearson ed il primo ufficiale Quintal si trovarono a dover controllare un grosso aliante (in inglese glider), facendo affidamento solo sulla strumentazione ausiliaria (in grado di funzionare anche in caso di flout), con un controllo limitato del velivolo, garantito solo da un generatore di emergenza della pressione idraulica.
		Era certamente un grosso rischio atterrare vicino a così tanta gente con un aereo in avaria, ma era l’unica possibilità di salvezza per il volo 143.
	www.encyclopedia.it /g/gi/gimli_glider.html (607 words)

	Gimli Glider
		Unbeknownst to Quintal, since his time in the service, RCAF Station Gimli had become a public airport, and had decommissioned one of its parallel runways, which was now being used for road racing.
		Forward slip is commonly used with gliders and light powered aircraft in the same situation.
		The "Gimli Glider", registration (TC: C-GAUN), (Fin 604, on the nose gear door or top of the tail, hence Fin number) is still in service with Air Canada as of 2007.
	www.1bx.com /en/Gimli_Glider.htm (1547 words)

	Gimli, Manitoba
		Gimli is a rural municipality in south-central Manitoba, Canada.
		Gimli is famous for being the only location in the world that produces Crown Royal Canadian whisky.
		Gimli is the site of a disused Royal Canadian Air Force base, which is now used by the Gimli Gliding Centre and the Royal Canadian Air Cadets.
	www.kiwipedia.com /en/gimli--manitoba.html (257 words)

	Gimli Glider Information
		Gimli Glider is a nickname given to an aircraft involved in an infamous incident in aviation history.
		Unbeknownst to Quintal, since his time in the service, Gimli had become a public airport, and had decommissioned one of its parallel runways, which was now being used for road racing.
		The "Gimli Glider", registration C-GAUN, (Fin 604, on the nose gear door or top of the tail, hence Fin number) is still in service with Air Canada as of 2006.
	www.bookrags.com /Gimli_Glider (1465 words)

	AIR SPORTS INTERNATIONAL
		Approaching Gimli Pearson and Quintal made their next discovery: The RAT didn't supply hydraulic power to the 767's landing gear, flaps, or slats.
		Air Canada Aircraft #604 was repaired sufficiently to be flown out of Gimli by their chief CFI two days later, and after approximately $1M in repairs, consisting primarily of skin repairs and replacement of a wiring harness it re-entered the Air Canada fleet.
		Copyright 1997 WHN 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.
	airsports.fai.org /aug2000/aug200004.html (2497 words)

	Air Taxi UK Virtual - Aviation
		Gimli's inactive runway had been "carved up" into a variety of racing courses, including the aforementioned dragstrip.
		Approaching Gimli Pearson and Quintal made their next unpleasant discovery: The RAT didn't supply hydraulic pressure to the 767's landing gear.
		Gimli was uncontrolled so Pearson had to rely on visual cues.
	www.atukv.net /amazing_stories_gg.html (2477 words)

	Ultralight Pilots Association of Canada - The Gimli Glider - An Unlikely Chain of Events (Site not responding. Last check: )
		What I found most surprising about the Gimli Glider incident, however, was the complex series of events which led to a multi-million dollar airplane with 61 passengers on board running it’s tanks dry mid flight.
		Fortunately, the captain was a glider instructor in his youth and was able to successfully land the 132 ton jet on the Gimli “runway” (now an active drag strip).
		Even though the Gimli “airbase” was crawling with local car enthusiasts and their families, the Gimli Glider managed to land without hitting any of them.
	www.upac.ca /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=56 (1599 words)

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