The Gimli Glider
I thank Ian and Denis, who prefer not to post, for their messages:
"I wonder if you were thinking of an Air Canada 767 out of Montreal? When it was refuelled there was an error in thinking lbs versus kg or vice versa.They ran out of fuel around Winnipeg but dead sticked it into the old WW2 training airfield at Gimli, Manitoba. This episode was known thereafter as The Gimli Glider".