The Algolia search box here on HN shows a ton of previous ''Gimli Glider'' submissions as it was a legendary feat of airmanship, and another Canadian pilot made an equally astonishing deadstick airliner landing in 2001:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321056

The joke in the airline industry is that Canada doesn't have great aircraft pilots, but we have the world's best glider pilots.

A joke amongst NATO pilots comparing Canadian aviators, with their limitless air space, and their European allies, with their comparitively tiny national air spaces:

''Europeans: afterburners off after 3 minutes. Canadians: afterburners off after 3 countries.''

> Both Pearson's wife and Dion's husband, Rick — who happened to be in the cockpit with Pearson — had died years earlier.

So not only was she a passenger, but also the other chap in the cockpit was her husband.

That is insane