Gimli Glider
I expect that most folks would be surprised to hear that Captain Bob Pearson was demoted for six months [0] after this landing, in which he side-slipped a commercial airliner with no functioning engines, and dodged two kids on bicycles on the Gimli 'runway' (read drag strip).Talk about a uniquely Canadian story - running out of fuel because of a mistake in Imperial to Metric unit conversion. This from someone who was in high school in 1978, The Year Dope Dealers Got an 'A' in Math.And if you don't get that joke, you're not a Canadian who grew up in the transition from Imperial to Metric.[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider[edit: duh, added the reference.  I get it, after having it being explained to me. Thanks folks. ]