It was from Los Angeles to New York, the flight that is also the flight in the story. NEWMAN: It did, and the starting point fittingly came to me when I was at work, working a flight. It's wonderful to speak with you.ĭAVIES: So did the idea for this story have a - I don't know, a starting point in your experience as an attendant? Newman last year, when the pandemic had make the flight of job attendants even more difficult, and the federal transportation mask mandate was still in place.ĭAVIES: T.J. Universal has already purchased the film rights to her book, called "Falling," which is now out in paperback. She studied musical theater at Illinois Wesleyan University and pursued that as a career in New York before taking to the skies. It's the first novel by Newman, who spent 10 years as a flight attendant, at times working on the story in quiet moments on red-eye flights. ![]() The pilot enlists the help of a veteran flight attendant to try and foil the plot, and the action is tense and fast-moving. He must crash the airplane when instructed, or his family will die. The pilot learns shortly after taking off that a terrorist has taken his wife and children captive in their home, and the pilot has a choice. Newman, has written a thriller about a flight from Los Angeles to JFK Airport, where the problems are far more serious. Most of us take commercial plane flights from time to time, and we've come to accept the annoyances of air travel - tight seats, flight delays, turbulence. ![]() ![]() I'm Dave Davies, in today for Terry Gross.
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