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 ...

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.

can forget the story of the Gimli Glider. On July 23, 1983, the small Interlake community’s racing strip was the site of an emergency landing, when an Air Canada Boeing 767 destined for Edmonton ...

Pearson, an experienced glider pilot, sailed the aircraft for 17 minutes before landing it in the town of less than 2,000 people. Soon after Flight 143 became the Gimli Glider, and today the story ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Woroniuk said he hopes he can find a local tinsmith who can repair the fuel tank, but if it must be replaced he's willing to go to the airplane graveyard in the Mojave Desert, where the Gimli Glider ...