In 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet because fuel was calculated in pounds instead of kilograms; the pilots glided it onto a disused air base runway in Gimli, and all 69 on board survived

• An Air Canada Boeing 767 carrying 61 passengers and eight crew members ran completely out of fuel at 41,000 feet over Manitoba after a mistake in converting metric measurements caused ground staff to put less than half the required fuel into the aircraft.
• The pilots managed to glide the 132-tonne plane for 17 minutes without engine power.
• They made an emergency landing on a former military runway that had been turned into a sports car race track.