TIL about the 1983 "Gimli Glider" incident in which a Boeing 767 flying from Montreal to Edmonton ran out of fuel due to the ground crew making a metric conversion error when fueling. The pilot glided the plane and landed it on a decommissioned runway in Gimli which was being used for go-kart racing
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/when-a-metric-mix-up-led-to-the-gimli-glider-emergency-1.47540…
