In the Gimli Glider incident on 23 July 1983 , an Air Canada Boeing 767 en route from Montreal to Edmonton ran out of fuel and made an unpowered landing on a decommissioned runway ( converted to a drag strip ) at Gimli Industrial Park Airport , a former RCAF base near Gimli with no control tower and no fire trucks available . A reenactment of the incident aired on Discovery Channel 's '' Mayday '' series and on Syfy 's '' Urban Legends '' series
Gimli Glider
Gimli Glider
Rural Municipality of Gimli