Babushka and riot shield, Moscow, October 4, 1993. (Photo – Phil Hossack)

Twenty-five years ago in September 1993, I felt I needed a break from the day-to-day journalism in Manitoba. So I took a month’s leave of absence from the Winnipeg Free Press and went to Moscow to visit the communist superpower’s capital. I was looking forward to focusing my lenses on street photography.
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(Thirty-five years ago, the Gimli Glider made international headlines after the Air Canada jet ran out of fuel and had to land with no engines and no electronic controls. Wayne Glowacki‘s photo showed the story to the world.)

An Air Canada Boeing 767 sits on an abandoned runway in Gimli, Manitoba, July 24, 1983, following an emergency landing on July 23 after the jet ran out of fuel while flying from Montreal to Edmonton. The defunct airstrip is used by the Winnipeg Sports Car Club whose members helped put out a small fire in the nose of the plane. (Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free Press)

I received a phone call at home late Saturday evening, July 23, 1983, from Winnipeg Free Press night photographer, Ken Gigliotti. He informed me that an Air Canada 767 jet had just made an emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba, on an abandoned military airstrip, an hour’s drive north of Winnipeg.
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