Captain Nia Gilliam on Her Memoir "Cleared for Takeoff"
What does it take to climb back into the cockpit after one of the most traumatic days in our nation's history?
This week we sit down with airline captain Nia Gilliam, author of CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF On September 11th, 2001, Nia was a first officer on the runway at Newark when the South Tower was hit, and her plane became the last to take off from that airport. Her memoir braids that morning with the story of a little girl near O'Hare who watched airplanes and wondered where they were going.
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