Darkness Before the Dawn by Belle Reilly

A troubled Captain Catherine Phillips plans for this flight to Rome to be her last in the employ of Orbis Airlines. Unfulfilled by her job and adrift in her personal life, the only solution she sees is to quit—to run away—as she's done in the past. But a band of terrorist hijackers, as well as a gutsy young flight attendant Rebecca Hanson, throw a wrench into Catherine's plans. The pilot is forced to come to terms with the demons of her past even as she struggles to save her crippled aircraft and the lives of all aboard.