Gander

Gander is the site of the largest military plane disaster in US history. In 1985 a plane carrying soldiers returning home from the middle east crashed into the lakeside shortly after take-off.

We visited the museum and the crash site itself yesterday. There is still a lot of controversy about the actual cause and we may never know the answers. What they did know was sealed for 70 years.

Gander was also an emergency landing center after 911. Planes from all over were forbidden to enter US airspace, so diverted to Gander instead. This town of 10,000 grew exponentially overnight and the details can be read in a book, The Day the World Came to Gander, or something like that, anyway. Several people we talked to yesterday and the day before related their stories about it.