Gimli Glider 25th anniversary

Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of one of the stranger episodes in Canadian flight history, the "Gimli Glider":

Air Canada Flight 143, with 61 passengers and eight crew members, was headed from Montreal to Edmonton.

Due to a miscalculation of the recently adopted metric system, the Boeing 767 ran out of fuel 12 km from the Ontario-Manitoba border at an altitude of 41,000 feet.

Plummeting fast with no engine power and no chance of making the Winnipeg airport, Captain Robert Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal made the decision to turn the plane into a giant glider and landed it at an abandoned air force strip at Gimli, Man.

No one was hurt except for some minor scrapes from exiting the plane.