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On 9/11, as America was under attack, the order came: Get every goddamn plane out of the sky. Thirty-eight landed at an obscure airport in Newfoundland. What followed was humanity...

On September 11 the planes didn't stop coming at the start of five days that would be a rare glimmer of light amid the Al Qaeda terror atrocities.

On 9/11, as America was under attack, the order came: Get every goddamn plane out of the sky. Thirty-eight landed at an obscure airport in Newfoundland. What followed was humanity...

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On September 11 the planes didn't stop coming at the start of five days that would be a rare glimmer of light amid the Al Qaeda terror atrocities.

Nowadays, just five flights a day come into Gander. But on September 11 the planes didn't stop coming at the start of five days that would be a rare glimmer of light amid the Al Qaeda terror atrocities.

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On September 11 the planes didn't stop coming at the start of five days that would be a rare glimmer of light amid the Al Qaeda terror atrocities. Nowadays, just five flights a day come into Gander.

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Nowadays, just five flights a day come into Gander.

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