The Passenger Jet That Ran Out of Fuel at 41,000 Feet #shorts

At 41,000 feet, Air Canada Flight 143 lost both engines. The aircraft had simply run out of fuel—and 69 people were aboard. On 23 July 1983, a chain of fuel-gauge, procedural and metric-conversion failures left a nearly new Boeing 767 gliding above Manitoba. Captain Robert Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal could not reach Winnipeg, so they turned toward a former military runway at Gimli. They did not know part of it was being used for motor racing. All 69 people aboard survived without serious injury. Sources: AOPA — The Gimli Glider: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2000/july/pilot/the-gimli-glider Final Report of the Board of Inquiry: https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2024-12/AirCanada143_C-GAUN.pdf Visuals are generated historical reconstructions, not archival footage. #TheAxerStories #GimliGlider #AirCanada143 #AviationHistory #Shorts