In the instant before the aircraft touches down at Gimli, the altimeter needle is winding down very close to zero feet. However, altimeters display mean sea level (MSL), not above ground level (AGL). The elevation at Gimli is 760' MSL, so the altimeter needle should have been pointing slightly above 760' at that moment. In fact, very few airports in the world sit at 0' MSL. For reference, the world's lowest-lying international airports are New Orleans (4' MSL) and Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, which is actually 11 feet below sea level.
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