Just did a quick search for the Gimli Glider story and came up with
http://www.frontier.net/~wadenelson/...ies/gimli.html
It comes with the rather amusing footnote....
An amusing side-note to the Gimli story is that after Flight 143 had landed safely, a group of Air Canada mechanics were dispatched to drive down and begin effecting repair. They piled into a van with all their tools. They reportedly ran out of fuel en-route, finding themselves stranded somewhere in the backwoods of Manitoba
