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In April 2013, the Gimli Glider was offered for sale at auction, by a company called Collectable Cars, [9] with an estimated price of CA$2.75–3 million. [27] However, bidding only reached CA$425,000 and the lot was unsold. [28] According to a website dedicated to saving the aircraft, the Gimli Glider was scrapped in early 2014.
Gimli Motorsport Park was the site of the infamous Gimli Glider incident in 1983, an aviation accident in which Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767, ran out of fuel midflight and emergency-landed on the former runway, then operating as the race track during a Formula Ford race. There were no serious injuries reported, and the plane suffered ...
The event was included in a "Hero Pilot" episode that included the Gimli Glider from 1983 and TACA Flight 110 from 1988. It is featured in season 1, episode 1, of the TV show Why Planes Crash. It is featured in the 2020 animated short film Hudson Geese directed by Bernardo Britto. [120] The 2010 song "A Real Hero" by College (feat.
In a new interview on the Las Culturistaspodcast with Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, the 31-year-old Grammy winner revealed she scrapped "so many things" planned to accompany her 2020 album Positions ...
A combination of live action and CGI was used to depict the flight of the "Gimli Glider". Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 was based on Freefall: From 41,000 feet to Zero - A True Story by William and Marilyn Hoffer. Although retaining the real names of three key individuals: Pilots Bob Pearson and Maurice Quintal and Air Canada Maintenance ...
You Can Play These Songs with Chords is an early (1996–97) demo from the rock band Death Cab for Cutie, which at the time consisted entirely of founder Ben Gibbard.This demo was originally released on cassette by Elsinor Records.
Gimli Industrial Park Airport (IATA: YGM, ICAO: CYGM) is a civilian airport and former military field located 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) west of Gimli, Manitoba, Canada. It now operates as a civilian airport, with one of the original parallel runways decommissioned and now a significant portion of Gimli Motorsports Park .
The Gimli airfield became the focus of international attention on Saturday, July 23, 1983, [4] when Air Canada Flight 143 made an emergency landing there after a 17-minute powerless glide due to fuel exhaustion.