Summary of Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Lopers were homeward bound. They had traveled nearly 15,000 miles to adopt a two-year-old girl in Kazakhstan. They had spent their life savings and dealt with bureaucrats in three different countries, but now they had Alexandria.
#2 The unseasonably warm weather in Gander was all anyone could talk about. The mayor, Claude Elliott, liked to start his morning at Tim Horton’s, a Canadian equivalent of Starbucks.
#3 The mayor of Gander, Elliott, was making the morning rounds in his patrol car. He knew how important it was to keep in touch with what people were talking about. The local economy was another coffee-klatch topic.
#4 Fudge was sitting in his patrol car in the parking lot of the curling club when he heard about the radio broadcast. A plane had crashed into one of the towers in New York, possibly caused by an airplane crashing into the North Tower.

Sujets

• 21st century
• modern

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 19 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669354345
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Jim Defede's The Day the World Came to Town
Contents Insights from Chapter 1
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Lopers were homeward bound. They had traveled nearly 15,000 miles to adopt a two-year-old girl in Kazakhstan. They had spent their life savings and dealt with bureaucrats in three different countries, but now they had Alexandria.

#2

The unseasonably warm weather in Gander was all anyone could talk about. The mayor, Claude Elliott, liked to start his morning at Tim Horton’s, a Canadian equivalent of Starbucks.

#3

The mayor of Gander, Elliott, was making the morning rounds in his patrol car. He knew how important it was to keep in touch with what people were talking about. The local economy was another coffee-klatch topic.

#4

Fudge was sitting in his patrol car in the parking lot of the curling club when he heard about the radio broadcast. A plane had crashed into one of the towers in New York, possibly caused by an airplane crashing into the North Tower.

#5

Knoth was informed that all airports in the New York City area had been shut down. He was unsure of what to do, so he sent an urgent message to Lufthansa’s base in Frankfurt asking for guidance.

#6

Harold O’Reilly, the lead supervisor at Gander’s air-traffic control center, was told to come see the television in the break room when a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. He was shocked when he was called by the air-traffic control center in Boston to inform him that all airspace in the United States had been closed.

#7

On September 11, 2001, every American airline had to land at the nearest airport. The planes were to converge on a few airports in eastern Canada. The key for O’Reilly was Gander, which was built in the mid-thirties as a military base shared by the United States, England, and Canada.

#8

The town of Gander, which was built around the airport, was the spot where hundreds of people defected from Eastern Europe and Cuba in the sixties and seventies. The eighties and nineties saw Gander used primarily as a refueling stop by private and corporate jets.

#9

On September 11, 2001, Gander was designated as an alternate landing site for the Space Shuttle if it had to abort its mission shortly after takeoff. The same planes that had rendered Gander’s airport largely obsolete were now going to be forced to seek shelter there.

#10

When the first plane landed in Gander, the controllers were calm and collected. They instructed the pilots to land in St. John’s or Gander, and they would make the decision for them. The pilots were not to ask questions or discuss the situation with the controllers.

#11

When Lufthansa flight attendant First Officer Peter Knoth was asked to land in Canada, he decided to continue west rather than turn around. He contacted Gander’s air-traffic control center for clearance to fly on to Toronto’s airport. The controller denied the request.