The world-famous Gimli Glider is about to receive the National Geographic treatment. A London-based film crew from the iconic ...

The world-famous Gimli Glider is about to receive the National Geographic treatment. A London-based film crew from the iconic ...

On a perfect prairie evening 42 years ago, an Air Canada jet fell silent above Lake Winnipeg — out of fuel, out of options, and yet destined to become one of the most astonishing feats in aviation ...

While Pearson is in Gimli for the official opening of the local museum, he will bring with him a scale model of the Gimli Glider Fin 604. This item is being donated to the museum by Chris Blair.

Residents in the small town of Gimli, Manitoba, are celebrating today to mark 30 years since a Boeing 767 airliner made an emergency landing there after running out of fuel. While not widely known ...

The Gimli Glider Museum will mark this year’s 40th anniversary of the event July 22, at the hangar close to where the plane touched down all those years ago.

The Gimli Glider will be hitting the skies again soon — but now on your luggage. MotoArt, an American company that makes high-end furniture from old aircraft, is making 10,000 luggage tags out ...

GIMLI GLIDER EXHIBIT KATHY HENDERSON The Gimli Glider Exhibit takes one back to 1983 when an Air Canada Boeing 767 plane ran out of gas and glided for 17 minutes before making a safe landing in Gimli.

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.

The "Gimli Glider," a Boeing 767 that has become a cause célèbre in aviation circles, will be retired to the desert today by Air Canada as the airline spruces up its fleet.

Perhaps the Gimli Glider is just too big and will take up too much space at the museum. That’s OK because a better use for the huge aircraft, which is now up for sale, might be what they do with ...

The "Gimli Glider," a Boeing 767 that has become a cause célèbre in aviation circles, will be retired to the desert today by Air Canada as the airline spruces up its fleet.