Pearl Dion never expected to fall in love with the man who saved her life.
She was one of more than 60 passengers on the famed “Gimli Glider” — the nickname given to the Boeing 767 jet that made an emergency landing near the small community of Gimli, Man., on July 23, 1983, after running out of fuel due to a metric conversion error.
The Montreal-to-Edmonton Air Canada Flight 143 was piloted by Bob Pearson, whose flying skills allowed him to successfully land the plane on an abandoned runway near the town in Manitoba’s Interlake region, saving everyone on board — including Dion, now
