UI #5 - The Gimli Glider

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2008

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The true story of a Boeing 767 that ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet and lost total power. With no airport within gliding range, find out how these courageous pilots dealt with this frightening life or death situation. Also, do you know which celebrity Nobel Prize physicist Max Born was the grandfather of? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
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0:35.0	Hello all, Eric Rivenus with the most notorious podcast here.
0:39.0	Each week I interview an author or historian about a historical true crime, tragedy or disaster.
0:46.0	Subject matter ranges from gunslingers to gilded age murder to gangsters to fires to, to wild prison breaks.
0:54.0	My guests bring their incredible knowledge directly to you.
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1:02.0	Cheers and have a save tomorrow. on your
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1:05.0	Cheers and have a safe tomorrow.
1:08.0	Useless information.
1:15.3	Hi, I'm Steve Silburn and you're listening to a classic episode of the Useless Information Podcast. The Gimli Glider story you're about to hear was
1:19.7	first released on January 29th of 2008, although metadata listed as February 1st.
1:26.3	Either way I was only days into my podcast and career never imagining I'd still be doing
1:30.9	it all these years later.
1:33.0	I originally penned the story from my useless information website in the late 1990s
1:38.0	and then included in my second book which is titled Limburg's artificial heart.
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