* 1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.

** The Gimli Glider, a plane that landed there

Gimli Glider parked at Mojave Airport & Spaceport in February 2008 ( C-GAUN Air Canada livery was subsequently removed )

On 24 January 2008, the Gimli Glider took its final voyage, AC7067, from Montreal Trudeau to Mojave Airport before its retirement in the desert where it was used for parts.

The Gimli Glider retires to the desert.

On Thursday, 24 January, fin 604, the Boeing 767-200 better known as the Gimli Glider, will undertake its final voyage from Montreal to Mojave Airport ( MHV ) before it is retired to the desert.

The Gimli Glider was then scheduled ( but delayed ) to depart Tucson and make the final flight to the Mojave Airport ( KMHV ) for retirement.

Pages 221-9 deal specifically with Gimli Glider.

* Damn Interesting: The Gimli Glider

* CBC Digital Archives: ' Gimli Glider ' lands without fuel

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The aircraft involved returns to service and is nicknamed the " Gimli Glider.

* Air Canada Flight 143 ; better known as the Gimli Glider incident

* July 23-Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 makes an emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba.

* On July 23, 1983, Air Canada Flight 143 ( now known as the Gimli Glider ), a Boeing 767 trying to reach Winnipeg as an alternate, was forced to make an emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba after running out of fuel.

# Gimli Glider: An Air Canada Boeing 767, ran out of fuel en route from Montreal to Edmonton.

A famous example is the Gimli Glider, an Air Canada Boeing 767 that ran out of fuel and glided to a safe landing in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada on July 23, 1983.

Poor metrication training was a contributing factor to Air Canada Flight 143, the so called Gimli Glider, running out of fuel mid-flight on 23 July 1983.

The Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and Gimli Film Festival are also major festivals in North America, as is the Vancouver International Film Festival, the fifth largest film festival in North America.

It is at Meduseld that Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and Gandalf meet with King Théoden in the account of the early stages of the War of the Ring.

Doom — and Gimli son of Glóin who, it is said, accompanied his friend Legolas to Valinor.

He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

David Arnason ( born 1940 Gimli, Manitoba, Canada ) is a Canadian author and poet who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with his partner Mhari Mackintosh.

New scenes depict both Éowyn and Merry fighting the Orcs and Haradrim on foot, as well as a brief fight between Éowyn and Gothmog in which the latter is wounded, and later killed by Aragorn and Gimli.

In Norse mythology, Gimlé ( alternately Gimli ) is a place where the survivors of Ragnarök are foretold to live.

In Asgard, the realm of the gods, Gimli is the golden roof of a building where righteous men go when they die.

However, he and Gimli ( whose height is used for comedic effect at the start of the battle ) share a scene where they sneak through a side-door and he tosses the dwarf into a group of enemies who are battering down the doors to the keep.

Jackson inserts another comedy scene here, with Legolas shooting a dead Uruk and claiming a tie on the basis that it was moving, Gimli irately explains this is because his axe is embedded in the Uruk's nervous system.

In Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, Gimli calls Balin his cousin, though their kinship is technically " first cousin once removed ".

In the book there is no reference to Gimli changing his weapon, which is not described in detail ; there is also no mention of Balin's axe.

A similar fate happens to the Dwarves: although Erebor becomes an ally of the Reunited Kingdom and there are indications Khazad-dûm is refounded, and a colony is established under Gimli in the White Mountains, they become ever more reclusive, and disappear from human history.

The riding is bordered to the north by Interlake, to the west by Portage La Prairie, to the south by Morris and to the east by Gimli.

Rohan's heroes are Merry, Eowyn, Eomer, Theoden, Gimli, Legolas, Aragorn, and Treebeard ( he is bought at an Entmoot ).

Kildonan is bordered on the east by River East and Rossmere, to the south by St. Johns and Burrows, to the north by Gimli, and to the west by The Maples.

The riding is bordered by Kildonan to the east, Inkster to the west, Burrows to the south and Gimli to the north.

Interlake is bordered to the east by Lake Winnipeg, to the south by Lakeside and Gimli, to the north by Swan River, and to the west by Lake Manitoba.

The crew was able to glide the aircraft safely to an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, a former Royal Canadian Air Force base in Gimli, Manitoba.

At this point, Quintal proposed landing at the former RCAF Station Gimli, a closed air force base where he had once served as a Canadian Air Force pilot.

, Air Canada fin number 604, was temporarily repaired at Gimli and flew out two days later to be fully repaired at a maintenance base in Winnipeg.

An accident involving two Red Knights occurred in August 21, 1963 at the Gimli Air Force Day airshow.

* Air Canada Flight 143, landed at Gimli, Manitoba Air Force Base after gliding after running out of fuel on July 22, 1983