Alberta | S Frisch - 10/17/2025 09:48
You're right I did × 2.2 instead of ÷
Damn metric. That's how the Gimli Glider happened. They fueled up a Boeing 767 in eastern Canada with so many pounds of fuel and thought it was kilos. Took off headed for Vancouver. She quit over Manitoba and the hero pilot located a WWII airstrip about 40 miles from Winnipeg and glided it in. They were having drag races there that weekend but nobody got hurt. Collapsed the nose gear.
Thanks to rancher/auction market owner Ralph Vold we still sell cattle by the pound in Canada.
Edited by Cured 10/17/2025 23:38
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Hang on the cattle market might get ruff
