Michael Thexton

realized that they couldn't go through the terminal building.

So they had made up some security guards uniforms and just sort of driven up to the plane and run up the steps, brushing aside the soldiers.

But they didn't know where the pilot sits on a jumbo jet.

So the flight attempt at the second door shouting warnings into her intercom, I did, I heard from...

The flight engineer on our plane, afterwards I spoke to him and he said that she'd shouted these warnings.

He'd said, gosh, she says there's a hijack going on.

And they had a discussion and they said, you know, well, what do we do?

Which is interesting.

And what is more interesting, which I don't think would happen now...

The flight engineer said, well, go and have a look.

And so he left the cockpit.

He got an axe out of the emergency equipment, which is somewhere there, and went downstairs carrying an axe.

And upstairs in this extra business class seating, there are seven passengers, a flight attendant, who presumably think, oh, flight engineer has got the axe out.

Oh, he's come back up the stairs a lot quicker than he went down.

What do we do now?

I have to say, an important piece of learning.

At the first sign of the axe, I am going to open a door and leave.

I feel that the axe is never a good thing to see on a plane.

But he went back into the cockpit, shut the door.

He said, she's not wrong.