The Gimli Glider, the Metric Conversion That Silenced Both Engines at Forty-One Thousand Feet, and the Drag Race Already Underway on the Runway When Air Canada One Forty-Three Came Down Without Power
On July 23, 1983, a unit conversion error left Air Canada Flight 143 with less than half its required fuel - and both engines silent at 41,000 feet over Canada.
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