{"id":14381,"date":"2025-07-22T21:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14381\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:42:06","slug":"today-in-history-july-23-director-told-parents-their-kids-would-not-be-in-any-danger-before-fatal-on-set-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14381\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History &#8211; July 23: Director told parents their kids would not be in any danger before fatal on-set accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Canada flight ran out of fuel 12,000m above Manitoba on July 23, 1983.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 767 had to drift to the nearest airstrip, which they believed to be an unoccupied Canadian Air Force base.<\/p>\n<p>Instead it had been converted into a race track, and a race was being held that day.<\/p>\n<p>With the engines off, spectators were taken completely by surprise when the jumbo jet landed on the unexpectedly crowded runway.<\/p>\n<p>But the failure of the front landing gear meant the plane&#8217;s nose hit the runway, creating additional friction to slow it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Air Canada flight ran out of fuel 12,000m above Manitoba on July 23, 1983. The Boeing 767&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-14381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}