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Gimli Glider

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Search complete. 7 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Gimli Glider".

Oct 30, 2026

Jay & Silent Bob Get Old

Jay & Silent Bob Get Old

Jay Finds His Missing Father

Oct 30 · 2 Mentions

Jason MewesHOST
22:47
Can you believe that shit? That's crazy.
Kevin SmithHOST
22:49
Now, there was another case very famous that we talked about years ago on Smodcast, me and Mosier, called the Gimli Glider.
Kevin SmithHOST
22:56
And you'll love this because it'll terrify you.
Kevin SmithHOST
22:59
But there was a day...
Kevin SmithHOST
23:40
They're gassing up the fucking plane.
Kevin SmithHOST
23:43
Giant plane.
Kevin SmithHOST
23:44
This ain't like, you know, you hear Gimli gliders.
Kevin SmithHOST
23:46
Like, oh, it's probably a little light plane.

Unknown podcast

The Gimli Glider, Air Canada Flight One Forty-Three, and the Dead-Stick Arrival That Became the Most Remarkable Landing in Commercial Aviation History

Oct 19 · 2 Mentions

Tail DraggerHOST
0:16
July 23, 1983.
Tail DraggerHOST
0:18
Air Canada flight 143, 41,000 feet over northwestern Ontario.
Tail DraggerHOST
0:23
61 people on board.
Tail DraggerHOST
0:25
Two pilots up front, eight crew working the cabin.

11 MINS LATER

Tail DraggerHOST
11:22
It all goes in the tank.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:23
Sometimes you find out what is in that tank at 41,000 feet with the engines gone.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:28
Sources for today come from Transport Canada's official accident investigation report on Air Canada Flight 143, the Aviation Safety Network Incident Database, and William and Marilyn Hoffer's book on the incident, which is worth tracking down if you want the full story.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:41
You can find us at RadioHangar.com. I'm Tail Dragger.

Unknown podcast

The Gimli Glider, the Fuel That Wasn't There, and the Captain Who Turned a Boeing Seven Sixty-Seven Into the World's Largest Sailplane

Oct 13 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
9:54
There were efforts to preserve it, but C-GOWN was eventually scrapped.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:57
The Gimli glider doesn't sit in a museum.
Tail DraggerHOST
9:59
It sits in every fuel calculation procedure that got rewritten after July 1983.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:05
It sits in the training manuals that added mandatory independent verification of fuel loads on aircraft with inoperative fuel gauges.

Unknown podcast

The Gimli Glider, the Metric Conversion That Silenced Two Jet Engines, and the Slip That Saved Sixty-Nine Lives

Oct 8 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
10:39
It flew quietly for another twenty-five years, logging hundreds of thousands of hours of ordinary, uneventful trips up and down the country.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:47
The crew sometimes called it the Gimli Glider.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:50
The name stuck.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:51
When it was finally retired in two thousand and eight, it was the last of its generation in the fleet.
Finding MH370

Finding MH370

The Final 1 Percent

Oct 5 · 1 Mention

Jeff WiseHOST
17:21
Nobody was hurt.
Jeff WiseHOST
17:23
The event was later memorialized as the Gimli Glider.
Jeff WiseHOST
17:27
Then in 20, uh, 2001, Air Transat Flight 236, an Airbus 330, ran out of fuel over the Atlantic at 33,000 feet, glided for 65 nautical miles to a safe landing in the Azores.
Jeff WiseHOST
17:41
This flight has been nicknamed the Azores Glider.

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