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1. Refers to Air Canada Boeing 767 C-GAUN (c/n 22520), which on July 23, 1983 ran out of fuel over [Northern Ontario], and glided to a landing at an abandoned airfield in Gimli, Manitoba. At the time, this was the first ever dead-stick landing of a jet airliner. The aircraft was [subsequently] recovered from Gimli and flew for Air Canada for another 25 years before being finally retired in January 2008. 2. Subsequently, the term 'Gimli glider' has become Canadian slang for a [particularly] glaring screw-up.
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