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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of the Gimli Glider, the Air Canada Boeing 767 that glided to a landing on an old Gimli runway, is the stuff of aviation legend. On July 23, 1983, it looked like a critical fuel level ...

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 ...

Mr. Pearson managed to glide the powerless aircraft to Gimli, and by giving the big jet a last-minute sideways shimmy that he remembered from his days as a glider pilot, he was able to cut ...

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 attitude expressed by Shirley Render, executive director of the Western Canada Aviation Museum, toward the idea of making the Gimli Glider part of its collection reveals what can be wrong with ...

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 ...

"Everybody kind of knows the famous story of the Gimli Glider, but up until now there's never been a museum or exhibit dedicated to this amazing aviation story," said Steve Bannister. He and a group ...