Canada’s Gander International Airport in Newfoundland offered refuge to 7,000 displaced airplane passengers on 9/11 and inspired the hit musical “Come from Away.” Find out why this spot is a ...

Canada’s Gander International Airport in Newfoundland offered refuge to 7,000 displaced airplane passengers on 9/11 and inspired the hit musical “Come from Away.” Find out why this spot is a ...

In an act of incredible selflessness, residents in the rural Newfoundland town of Gander threw open their doors and played host to thousands of airline passengers left stranded ...

Gander International Airport, on a typical day, Greenberg said, has seven planes in and seven planes out. But all that changed on that Tuesday morning 10 years ago.

Gander's airport hosted 38 planes, carrying about 6,600 passengers, after they were forced to land in Canadian airspace after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

That includes the runways in Gander, which are 10,000 and 8,000 feet long and allowed the airport to handle landing a few dozen large commercial aircraft on short notice. Gander also had the advantage ...

An airport grew out of these early flight beginnings and by the mid-century swarms of people passed through Gander International Airport’s hallways.

An airport grew out of these early flight beginnings and by the mid-century swarms of people passed through Gander International Airport’s hallways.