When four hijacked planes crashed on September 11, the airspace over the U.S. was closed and all planes in the air were ordered to the nearest airport. Dozens of aircraft ended up in Gander, ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) - "They would come to the Lions Club and say, `Hey, who needs a shower? Come over to my place.' And that's pretty trusting of a bunch of strangers that landed there, you know? Roxanne ...

GANDER, Newfoundland — To hear something nice about 9/11, talk to "the plane people," the passengers who wound up on the island of Newfoundland that day because U.S. airspace was shut. Sept. 11 Talk ...

Ian Day still gets “goosebumps and teary-eyed” when he thinks about the first time he saw Come From Away on opening night in the West End of London, UK. This article is part of a series about the ...

Gander, Newfoundland is a tiny Canadian town on an island in the Atlantic Ocean — so tiny, in fact, that according to Mayor Claude Elliott, the town only has six traffic lights. Elliott has lived in ...

On September 11, 2001, when the FAA closed its airspace and more than 250 planes were forced to land in Canada, 38 commercial planes carrying 6579 passengers and crew were diverted to Gander ...