And now, on September 11, for the same reason it was considered a suitable landing site for the Space Shuttle—it has an unusually long main runway—Harold O’Reilly knew it would be the ideal place to handle a sky full of jumbo jets with nowhere to land. The irony of the situation was not lost on O’Reilly. The very same planes that had rendered Gander’s airport largely obsolete were now going to be forced to seek shelter there.
