Michael Thexton

But there were a lot of people who were going to try and continue this journey to Frankfurt, and we were all frightened.

and we hadn't got our, you know, papers, and the world's press walking up and down the lines interviewing people.

And we got on the plane and I went upstairs and I was now sitting in the upstairs bit behind the cockpit, sitting next to the flight engineer from the original flight.

I mean, a couple of details, you know, they made an announcement saying, ladies and gentlemen, there will be free drink for everybody.

And I thought two things.

First, I paid for free drink.

You know, I'm really unhappy about that.

I haven't had a drink for two months.

I cannot basically be so pissed that I can fall over in front of the British press.

I can't do that.

So I think I had one drink on the entire journey home.

But then they made an announcement, ladies and gentlemen, we know that, you know,

Some of you are injured and if anybody's frightened or hurt, we have doctors on board.

The story was that the plane took off.

Somebody downstairs, you know, leaned back to relax and three doctors rushed forward to try and revive him.

You know, and that probably meant that he had may have had a heart attack.

I probably thought about it every day for two years.

Wow.

But it would not...

I wouldn't be sort of in fear and trembling, I mean, except occasionally if a sort of loud noise went off.