[cynwoody]

“It was then that the first officer turned to Gongol and revealed she had never landed at Omaha airport before.”

Neither Bob Pearson nor Maurice Qintal had ever landed where they landed on July 23, 1983.

It was a dead-stick landing, necessitated by "fuel exhaustion due to maintenance error". The "airport" was a closed Canadian airbase that Quintal remembered from his days in the service. Part of it had been converted into a drag strip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

[publius911]

I had forgotten aboot that exciting dead stick landing!