Michael Thexton

It was a little bit late, but it came in a beautiful cloudless day.

because it was still only about 26 in the morning and it parked itself a little distance away and then buses came and took away a few people who had flown from Mumbai to Karachi and had no idea how lucky they were that they were getting off this plane in Karachi and then took economy class passengers out

to the plane and then a couple of little buses drove us out and there at the front of the plane, two mobile staircases going up to the front two doors, first and business going up the front staircase

economy going up the second staircase.

And at the bottom of the staircase, there's people in uniform.

There's a sort of Pan Am official.

There's a soldier, a soldier with a Lee Enfield 303 rifle, looking very businesslike.

He's got this sort of beret on that's just sewed and a magnificent moustache and creases in his trousers and so on.

And he's there and

to stop anybody doing anything but i gave him you know no thoughts at all i just walked past up the stairs top of the stairs flight attendant looks at my boarding pass said yes sir 13b just back here and in between those two doors on that port aisle where i just come in

four rows back, there is the largest seat I have ever seen, you know, on a plane or off a plane.

And nobody in 13A, between me and the window, so I'm getting sort of twice as much room as I've paid for.

And so I put the big bag on that seat and opened it to get a book out.

And then I was going to sort of see where I could get rid of the bag.

And I had my hands in the bag looking for a book.

And

Again, I can still put myself in that moment.

And remember, I was thinking, I've caught the plane.

What can go wrong now?

Never think this.