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It was July 23, 1983. Dave Brown was tending to the grill with a beer in his hand after a day at the Gimli Motorsports Park in Gimli, Man. It was a Winnipeg Sports Car Club family day and campers hung out behind the strip – once a Royal Canadian …
Read More »Gimli, Man. to mark 40 years since harrowing plane incident Sunday – Winnipeg
Its fateful voyage was four decades ago this weekend, but few in the town of Gimli, Man., can forget the story of the Gimli Glider. On July 23, 1983, the small Interlake community’s racing strip was the site of an emergency landing, when an Air Canada Boeing 767 destined for …
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