Nia Gilliam wasn’t a captain yet on Sept. 11, 2001. At just 25 years old, she was sitting in the co-pilot seat on the runway at Newark Liberty International Airport, waiting for air traffic controllers to clear them for takeoff. “Smoke was already coming out of the North Tower, but we didn’t know at the time what was going on,” she recalls. “Pilots were asking air traffic controllers, and we heard them make comments about how, ‘We know at thi…
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