We all remember where we were when first hearing of 9/11. Some people were on trans-Atlantic flights. When the US closed the North Atlantic airspace, 38 passenger planes were directed to land at Gander in the northeast of Newfoundland. Gander has a large, military scale airfield but a population of only 10,000.
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