Hijacked – Flight 73: Hostage who survived the 1986 Pan Am aircraft assault finds out why one of many terrorists spared his life
Wearing a crimson cover jacket, an previous T-shirt and a Panama hat, all of which had seen higher days, Mike Thexton stood out like a sore thumb when he was the enterprise class part of Pan Am Flight 73.It was 5 September 1986, the aircraft sitting on the tarmac at Karachi airport in Pakistan within the early hours of the morning. Desperate for an honest evening's sleep and good meals as he made his method again to the UK from a mountaineering trek, Mike had swapped his flight to get house a little bit earlier and determined to improve for the primary time in his life."I can still call to mind the feeling as I put my bag down on this very big seat," he says now. "I took out a book and thought: this is fantastic."
The aircraft by no means took off. A...