Jack Laurence

His death sentence would continue until the day he died behind bars.

In situations like these, survivors are left with unanswered questions that linger for years, sometimes forever.

Why?

Why did you hurt me?

Why did you kill my brother, my sister, my mother, my father?

Or in Michael's case, why didn't you kill me?

Why didn't you shoot me in that doorway as you had the man just moments before?

Why didn't you pull the trigger when you had every reason in your mind to do so?

These questions tend to haunt survivors.

They echo in quiet moments.

They shape how you see the world, how you sleep at night and how you move through your life.

And most people never get the answers.

But in another incredible turn of events, Michael would get the chance to ask those very questions to the man who once stood behind him with a gun to his head.

In the immediate aftermath of what had happened, and in later trials of these men, they in fact denied shooting anyone.

They made up some cock-and-ball story that it was the Pakistani commandos who stormed the plane and unleashed a hail of bullets and explosives, claims that of course were utter rubbish, as the commandos never even got the chance to board that plane at all.

So they had always denied wrongdoing.

But nonetheless, even though Michael didn't think he would get the answers he was after, he was going to ask the questions.

Exactly.

And obviously, you know, we've spoken about this, you know, in talking about it and all this, and you don't think about it anymore.

I suppose, would you consider you've come away from it quite unscathed?