Gimli is a small town near Winnipeg with an abandoned airport.  The Gimli Gliding Centre uses this airfield.  It is also connected with the amazing story of a crash-landed 767 (not your typical disaster story, really amazing) known as:
The Gimli Glider
Falling from the sky: Flight 174[?] (a true-story movie)
Air Canada flight 143
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