Michael Thexton

I was actually asleep on the floor, curled up on the floor, and the guy with the young aggressive one woke me up by kicking my feet.

He said, up, up, move, move.

I picked myself up and stumbled back down the aisle again towards the economy class.

That's not supposed to run for 15 hours or whatever, how long we've been there.

It had broken down, and so the plane was on battery power, and all the electrics were failing very quickly.

So the air conditioning had gone, the lights were going, the music had stopped,

God bless it stopped.

And so I went through into the economy class.

Everything was exactly as I had left it.

I had sort of got this idea during the day that maybe they'd let the women and children off, but everybody was still there.

Everybody was looking very scared.

I saw a different seat, a window seat this time, again, a few rows in front of the wing exit.

And I went and slipped in there and got down low.

And I thought,

I'm back with the others.

I stand a chance.

This is amazing.

But you could tell that something was going to happen.

It was very tense.

It got completely dark, completely quiet.