Michael Thexton

You know, here are our boarding passes.

And then the pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer come the other way and says, excuse me, just sort of.

And they whisper to us, we think somebody's hijacked our plane.

And then, oh, dear, you know, better go up to the control tower.

And so the idea of a sort of instant response to a crisis is impossible.

Crises are difficult and difficult.

There was just confusion to start with.

She volunteered to show one of the hijackers where the cockpit was, because she saw that he was up, agitated, and he's saying, well, where is the pilot?

So she said, well, the pilot's upstairs.

Take my man to the cockpit.

so she went upstairs by the time she got the top of the stairs in front of the hijacker she realized that she needed to give the pilot time to escape and so she went and stood on in front of the door knocked loudly on the door and said pilot uh captain there's there's a hijacker out here would like to talk to you uh there's a hijacker out here captain

And she denied having a key.

So, I mean, she did have a key.

She could have opened the cockpit door, but she was trying to give the pilot time.

And eventually the guy pulled her out the way, kicked in the door and stepped inside.

And Sunshine said he didn't look up.

You know, people don't look up.

So he'd see the empty chairs.

I've always loved the thought that maybe they left their jackets on the back of the chairs or something.

And he said, where is the captain?