Gimli Glider

What is Gimli Glider?


1.

1. Refers to Air CanadaBoeing 767 C-GAUN (c/n 22520), which on July 23, 1983 ran out of fuel over Northern Ontario, and glided to a landing at an abandoned airfield in Gimli, Manitoba. At the time, this was the first ever dead-stick landing of a jet airliner. The aircraft was subsequently recovered from Gimli and flew for Air Canada for another 25 years before being finally retired in January 2008.

2. Subsequently, the term 'Gimli glider' has become Canadian slang for a particularly glaring screw-up.

1. Hopefully, the Gimli glider will end up in a museum.

2. You just pulled a real Gimli Glider back there.

See glider, luck


83

Random Words:

1. A right winger who believes that all that Rush Limbaug Says is true, regardless of the factually inaccuracies that Rush says. Regardle..
1. The McDonalds sell out of w00t It's Mac time now! W00ty McW00t W00t! 2. A variation of w00t. "I just beat Phazon in Metroi..
1. Noun. 1. Severe bleeding of the brain. 2. Severe bleeding of the brain caused by exposure of a person of average intelligence(the vict..