Fly This!

Here's the first in a weekly entry on flying. A lot of these will be about out of the ordinary aircraft escapades, but some won't be quite that scary...

The Air Canada 767 known as the "Gimli Glider" was retired last week, some 25 years after it ran out of gas over Canada and had to descend some 41,000 feet before making a dead stick landing on a closed airport runway being used for car racing...

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=00ad8889-e4ee-4f6a-8b5a-1ccd23f2daf3&k=19959

Wild pic of the plane right after it landed plus other info about the incident:

http://www.wadenelson.com/gimli.html