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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhiteWalker" data-source="post: 22622927" data-attributes="member: 548558">A fully functional Boeing 767 flying at 41,000 feet on a flight from Montreal to Edmonton Canada ran out of fuel.<img src="https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5f2fb17c0d4218d1c17bdaa4f81016c1-c" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Hard to believe! It turns out some human confusion about the unit of measure used to fuel the aircraft before the fateful flight caused the aircraft to only be partially fueled and when the last drop was used, both engines quit.It’s called the Gimli Glider because the pilots had the presence of mind to glide to an airport — and land on an inactive runway being used for drag racing.Not only that…after they got it on the ground, the crew called Air Canada in Winnipeg to send up some engineers so they could figure out how to get the plane home.They got in a van for the 60-mile drive, and the van ran out of gas on the way.</blockquote>

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