Michael Thexton

And maybe what's happening is there's a rioting crowd of Benazir Bhutto supporters outside, and one of them's got on the plane, and the security is now...

you know, come to protect us.

Now, I'd just walked up the steps.

I hadn't seen a rioting crowd approaching, you know.

This was just a sort of ridiculous thing, but trying to make sense of a situation that had just gone out of control very, very quickly.

And the man in the front doorway, he was then shouting at the flight attendant who'd just shown me my seat and said, he said, close the door, close the door.

Now, that's okay.

because the problem is outside.

He's protecting us from the outside."

But then she wouldn't.

She sort of froze, and he threatened her with the gun.

And, okay, I'm less happy about that.

That doesn't sound right.

So she reached out, closed the door, and then he said to her, where is the captain?

What is up these stairs?

If you've seen enough bad films, you sort of start to think, if you've seen, you know, Die Hard and Air Force One and things like that, you think that terrorists have a criminal mastermind who sort of planned this operation to the nth degree.

But to actually not even know where the cockpit is on a jumbo jet is amazing.

They had come up with this plan.

They'd been in the country for a couple of weeks.

They'd scoped out the airport.