Gimli Glider museum vice-president Steve Bannister (left), president Barb Gluck (centre) and Gwen Harp held a soft opening for the new museum dedicated to the story of the glider landing in 1983.

People in Gimli are marking the 30th anniversary of an event that made aviation history and became known as the Gimli Glider. In July 1983, an Air Canada flight with 69 people on board out of gas ...

While not widely known in the U.S, the story of the “Gimli Glider” and its captain, Robert Pearson, is part of Canadian lore. On July 23, 1983, Pearson and his co-pilot Maurice Quintal tapped ...

Thankfully, it was being piloted by Captain Bob Pearson, who had been trained as a glider pilot. He was able to safely land the Boeing 767 safely on Gimli's defunct airstrip. The plane would become ...

On Saturday, July 23, 1983, the jet landed safely and a legend was born. The "Gimli Glider," a Boeing 767 that has become a cause célèbre in aviation circles, will be retired to the desert today ...

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 ...

has had another extremely close call with an aircraft. Kerry Seabrook – who was a boy when the so-called Gimli Glider landed along an abandoned runway near Gimli on July 23, 1983 – had to ...