The Gimli Glider

Reg: C-GAUN

Delivered to Air Canada on March 30, 1983. A few months later, while flying from Montreal to Edmonton (via Ottawa), the airliner ran out of fuel (due to a refueling miscalculation) halfway on the trip, but the pilots, Captain Robert (Bob) Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal, was able to glide the B767 long enough, successfully executing an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park Airport (which had been converted as a dragstrip), Gimli, Manitoba. All 61 passengers and 8 crew members survived the landing, and ever since then, C-GAUN was affectionately called the "Gimli Glider". Suffering minimal damage, C-GAUN was repaired and returned to service, before finally being stored on January 1, 2008. The Gimli Glider was scrapped in early 2014, but its fuselage parts were made into luggage tags and are offered for sale by a California company, Moto Art.