http://www.ourairports.com/airports/CYGM/comments.html Comments left by OurAirports members who have visited Gimli Industrial Park Airport. http://www.ourairports.com/comments.html?comment=1095 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:01:25 -0500 http://www.ourairports.com/comments.html?comment=1095 <p>This is where the "Gimli Glider", an Air Canada Boeing 767, made its famous power-off emergency landing in 1983:</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider</a></p> <p>Air Canada retired the 767 from its fleet nearly 25 years later, on January 24, 2008, sending it to a bone yard in the Mojave Desert:</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/01/24/gimli-glider.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/01/24/gimli-glider.html</a></p>