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On 9/11:
Gander Time (NDT) = New York (EDT) - 2 hr 30 min
New York Time (EDT) = UTC - 4
Original (Feb 2020)
9/11 and the City of Gander NL
" ... a bright light on the better part of our humanity."
Tom Browkaw, TV Journalist
A Life Lesson From 9/11
The 9/11 Attacks
Outline of 9/11 Attacks
9/11 Details, one year later (USATODAY)
• More
• More
Minute-By-Minute for September 11, 2001 ****
911 Timeline (History Commons: very detailed, cached)
• The First 109 Minutes: The USAF and 9/11
Terrorist Aircraft Flight Details
All Times EDT
• 8:46 am: AA Flight 11 crashes into North Tower of WTC
• 9:03 am: UA Flight 175 crashes into South Tower of WTC
• 9:37 am: AA Flight 77 crashes into the west wall of the Pentagon
• 10:03 am: UA Flight 93 crashes near Shanksville PA
• More
• More
Clearing the Skys
Closure of US Airspace (9:45 am EDT)
• Consequences
• More
The Day the FAA Stopped the World (Time Magazine)
Ben Sliney: The Man Who Grounded 4,000 Airplanes on 9/11
• More
Closure of U.S. Airspace: 9:45 EDT, 9/11 ( Animated Map )
SCATANA: Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids
(US emergency plan for air traffic and nav aids during air defense emergency.
ATA Pilot in CONUS under SCATANA rules, 9/11
"For Air Traffic Controllers, an historic achievement"
"We're the only plane in the sky"
President Bush on 9/11
• More ****
• Secret Service Responds to Threat
• Hijackers in the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Excerpt: 9/11 Commission Report
The "20th Hijacker" was turned away
• More
How Many Terrorist Teams on 9/11?
• More (cached)
• More (cached)
Video from Ground Zero (graphic!)
• More
• 9/11 Photo Journal (History.com)
Aerial Photo of WTC Towers (pre-9/11)
Photo Details
9/11 Timeline (very detailed: 8 sections)
History.com (timeline)
• Timeline
• Britannica (timeline)
• CNN (cached)
Attack on the Pentagon (details)
• Air Defense Timeline
• ANG
• Map
• Photo Essay
• More
The 9-11 Tapes (ATC conversations w/ hijacked aircraft: chilling)
• The President & Air Force One During Attack
• More
• The 9/11 Commission Report (full, PDF, 7.2 MB)
• Summary
• Findings
• Criticism
• More Findings & Fixes
• The "28 pages" (Saudi connection)
• FBI Report on Saudi Hijackers (2008, Declassified )
• Were there more than four hijacking teams?
America's Road to War (Washington Post)
• Series (cached)
• Archive (cached)
• Decision to shoot Down Civilian Airliners
• How the 9/11 Attacks Changed America
• Consequence of 9/11 Attack: The Global War on Terror
Impact of 9/11 on Millennial Generation
• Video (4:45)
Reflecting on 9/11 Across Generations
• Editorial Responses
For Younger Americans 9/11 is little more than a cause for cynicism
Unscathed: The Millennial Generation and the Pivotal Decade that Shaped It
We Dare Not Repeat the Mistakes of 9/11 (Washington Post, 16 Nov 2020)
Blind Spot: The Road to 9/11 (investigative podcast; DETAILED)
(In reverse order on the page! Start at the bottom
and listen to each episobe from the bottom up!)
Scenarios for NORAD Exercises 1991 to 2001
(Simulating Crashes into Famous US Buildings)
Fatalities of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks (detailed graphic)
9/11 Facts & Statistics
Canadian Response
9/11 and Canada
• Transport Canada
• Nav Canada
• America Under Attack
• Airspace Emergency
• Communities Respond
Canada's Reaction (Kingston, Ont, Whig Standard, 9 Sep 2018)
Four Days in September: Transport Canada During 9/11
Nav Canada and the 9/11 Crisis (archived)
• Operation Yellow Ribbon
• More
• At Halifax
• Documentary **** (43:25)
• Video (arrivals)
• The Diversions: Pilots' View (video)
• Gander Oceanic's View (Cleared For Chaos)**** (documentary)
• Pt. 1 (3:00) (Facebook)
• Pt. 2 (2:15)
• Pt. 3 (2:29)
• Review
• Gander Oceanic Controller Narrative (Don O'Brien)
• Map of Diversion Airports, 9/11 (click for detail)
• Diversion Statistics
• Korean Air 85 into Whitehorse
Aircraft on the Ground, Gander 9/11 (early)
• Later
• Evening
• Gander IAP main ramp (early 9/11)
• Aircraft on the ground from perimeter road
Gander Stories
Gander: List of Aircraft, Number of Passengers, Billeting
• The Day the World Came to Town (book: 9/11 in Gander)
• Review
• Review
• Review (w/audio books & preview)
• Download or Read online
"One hundred and twenty-six hours passed between the time the first plane
landed in Gander on Tuesday and the last plane departed on Sunday." (p 23)
(best Gander 9/11 written narrative!)
• Gander 9/11: The Kindness of Strangers **** (video, 23:38)
(best Gander 9/11 story!)
• Channel of Peace (book by Kevin Tuerff, a plane person)
• Video (6:30)
• You Are Here: A Come From Away Story (trailer: 2:00)
• Pt 2
Full Documentary (44:07)
• Article (Orlando Sentinal, Sep 11, 2019)
Review
• Gander's Ripple Effect (documentary: 44:07 )
• Gander, NF Remembered 9/11 - (2016, narratred: 6:55)
• An Oasis of Kindness on 9/11 (USA Today. Sep 11, 2017)
Opening Hearts & Homes in Time of Need
"It's Great to Be Alive, isn't it?" **** (London to Washington flight narrative)
• Gander 9/11 Story (comprehensive! Read first) ⇒ then ⇒
• Video (10:22)
Stranded in Gander on 9/11
• Video
• More
• Gander 9/11: 10th Anniversary (CBS video: 4:37 - shows a/c landing)
• Small Town With a Big Heart **** (video: 2:54)
• Gander 9/11: The Kindness of Strangers **** (video, 23:38)
The tiny town behind a heartwarming 9/11 tale (Sydney AU Morning Herald) ****
("... 38 commercial aircraft carrying 6,579 passengers from 92 countries
were diverted here, to a town of 9,651 residents ... and four traffic lights.")
How Gander's Planning Weathered the Storm
• Gander man, Mac Moss, writes of unsung 9/11 heros
• Passenger's Story: London - Dulles
• Come From Away (narrative)
• Delta Flight 15 (crewmember story)
• Alt
• Passenger Story (Lufthansa, Frankfurt-JFK, video: 7:35)
Gander Hosted Stranded 9/11 Passengers (Snopes fact checker)
(NOTE: Still at least one major error: "Gander alone ended up with 53 airplanes from all over the world ..."
Variations in number reported, but but most sources agree: 38 aircraft were diverted to Gander. )
Capital of Kindness (WaPo, Sep 2019)
Memories of 9-11 Never Fade
Casualties of the September 11 Attacks
Health Effects of 9-11 Attacks
An Oasis of Kindness on 9/11 (USA Today, Sep 2017)
On 9/11, a tiny Canadian town opened its runways & heart (WaPo, Sep 10, 2016)
Town of Gander: aerial view w/ rwy in distance
The Town of Gander (Facebook)
Gander Tours
• North Atlantic Aviation Museum
Gander Airport Historical Society
• Twitter
• Galleries
• WW II Era
• Publications
• Airport Map (WW II)
• Photo, post-WWII
• Aviation Archeology of WW II Gander
• Pan Am at Gander
• '50s & '60s
The Airports
• Gander International Airport (CYQX)
Gander IAP Airport Authority
• Airdrome Chart (detailed)
• Diagram
• Satellite view
• Gander Aviation (FBO)
• Airport Complex
• History of Gander Airport
• Video
• History & Operational Details
• More
• Canadian Forces Base Gander
• 9 Wing Gander
• 103 Search & Rescue Squadron
• CH-113 Labrador helicopter (used for photography on 9-11)
• Halifax Stanfield International Airport (CYHZ)
• Background
• Airdrome Chart (detailed)
• Operational Details
• Airport Diagram
Parking 47 Diverted Airplanes at Halifax on 9-11
The Airspace
Highway in the Sky (NATS: North Atlantic Track System video)
• Managing Global Ocean ATC
• More
Gander's Key Role in Transatlantic Air Travel
• History of Gander Oceanic/Area Control Centre
The Aircraft
9/11 Gander Aircraft Photo Links
Gander • aerodrome chart
Gander Aerial, afternoon 9/11
Gander aerial view, twilight, 9/11
Main Ramp (L to right)
• Center
• Right
Aircraft Landing at Gander, 9/11 (video: 5:45, cbc.ca)
Continental DC-10 touching down, Rwy 21; C-141 in background
C-141B landing at Gander - 9/11
ATA L-1011 on final approach to Gander, 9/11 (cbc.ca)
Two ATA L-1011 at Gander Aviation;
L-1011 & C-141 on taxiway beyond (CBS News)
C-5 on cross taxiway to Rwy 13
• More
• V Large
Halifax • aerodrome chart
• satellite view, c 2021
(NOTE: Any 9-11 picture showing aircraft parked in a
double row on a runway is from Halifax)
How Halifax Stanfield IAP Handled the Diversions
Aircraft on the Ground, Halifax Stanfield IAP, 9/11
Halifax Stanfield IAP aerial down Rwy 23 - 9/11
Halifax Stanfield aerial: Terminal & Rwy 14-32
• Focus on Rwy 14-32
• Halifax: Aerial view down Rwy 14, terminal to right
Diverted aircraft at Halifax (ground level)
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