Elias Kanaris: A Kiwi's 9/11 story

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Today is the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. The terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda killed almost 3,000 people, and countless more have died from the environmental impacts of being near the collapsed Twin Towers. The attacks prompted the invasion of Afghanistan, we all now know how that ended. They also changed the world as we know it. Can you remember the feeling of waking up that morning and hearing the news? The attacks also upturned the lives of the thousands of people who were travelling that day. Kiwi Elias Kanaris is one of those people. He was flying Chicago to London, when his plane was diverted to the tiny Canadian town of Gander. The town’s population was doubled when 6,700 people were stuck there after panes were grounded following the attacks. Elias is a Resilience and Leadership keynote speaker, and he’s written a book about what he learned from the experience, called “Leading from the Stop”. He's been speaking to Jack Tame.
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