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When the U.S. government quickly responded to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by shutting down U.S. airspace—an unprecedented move—international flights bound for U.S. cities were forced to either turn around and go back to Europe or land in Canada. Thirty-eight of those planes landed in Gander, Newfoundland. The town of about 10,000 took in 6,700 more people in a matter of hours. How they did that with open hearts, open minds, open arms, and open homes is a story for the ages, and this heartwarming book by Jim DeFede explains it all.What makes this book so special is that it is told in the stories of the people—both “the plane people” as they came to be called and the citizens of Gander and surrounding small communities. There is the frantically worried 60-something couple from Brooklyn whose son was a firefighter called to duty in the World Trade Center right after the planes crashed into it, the two families who had just adopted children in Russia and were bringing them home, and the CEO of Hugo Boss who (hilariously) had to buy Walmart underwear, but also learned what it truly meant to be part of “the plane people” community.