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Not to be confused with [[Unit Confusion]]. See also [[Misplaced a Decimal Point]].
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* The "Gimli Glider" was an incident in July 1983 where a Air Canada Boeing 767-200 jet run out of fuel while an route from Montreal to Edmonton and had to be piloted as a glider and landed at an abandoned air strip In Gimli, Manitoba. The problem was traced to the use of an incorrect conversion factor for calculating the weight of a litre of fuel in kilograms. Canada was switching to the metric system at the time and a conversion factor for the weight in pounds was used instead.
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