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🔗 Tue, 25 Aug 2020 — @david at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, Canada
While the airport doesn't have an official METAR, a member mentioned this in a problem report:
Gimli has an AWOS. It is at www.gimliairportawos.com
Garman pilot uses CXGH as a Metar for CYGM. It is the Environment Canada weather at the town of Gimli 1.7 nm from CYGM
🔗 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 — @david at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, Canada
This is where the "Gimli Glider", an Air Canada Boeing 767, made its famous power-off emergency landing in 1983:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Air Canada retired the 767 from its fleet nearly 25 years later, on January 24, 2008, sending it to a bone yard in the Mojave Desert:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/01/24/gimli-glider.html
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🔗 Tue, 25 Aug 2020
— @david at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, Canada
While the airport doesn't have an official METAR, a member mentioned this in a problem report:
Gimli has an AWOS. It is at www.gimliairportawos.com
Garman pilot uses CXGH as a Metar for CYGM. It is the Environment Canada weather at the town of Gimli 1.7 nm from CYGM
Gimli Glider
🔗 Thu, 24 Jan 2008
— @david at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, Canada
This is where the "Gimli Glider", an Air Canada Boeing 767, made its famous power-off emergency landing in 1983:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Air Canada retired the 767 from its fleet nearly 25 years later, on January 24, 2008, sending it to a bone yard in the Mojave Desert:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/01/24/gimli-glider.html