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Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
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1983 aircraft accident in Canada
Air Canada Flight 143 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, midway through the flight. The flight crew successfully glided the Boeing 767 from an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,500 m) to an emergency landing…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Type of forced landing of an aircraft
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Rural Municipality of Gimli
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The Rural Municipality of Gimli is a rural municipality located in the Interlake Region of south-central Manitoba, Canada, on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg. It is about 75 kilometres (47 mi) north of the provincial capital Winnipeg. The rural municipality's population in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)