Michael Thexton

It would just always be running through my mind.

And that took probably two years before that stopped.

You know, these days I don't think about it at all, you know, for weeks on end.

Until someone like you calls me.

But, I mean, I think the thing that I was very lucky about, because I had been central...

Everybody wanted me to tell the story, including not just the journalists who want the blood and guts and exciting bits.

But it's not about how it started and how it finished.

It's about thinking you're going to die for 12 hours and seeing no possibility that anything else will happen.

And that has an effect.

But people...

who deal with crises wanted me to tell them the story and they wanted all of that.

So I spent years talking to people who train cabin crew, talking to people who train commandos, talking particularly to police negotiators who stand outside these scenes with a megaphone.

And the interesting thing about that was I would do this talk with one of the other people who was on the plane, and we would sit there and tell this story at the end of week one of a two-week course.

And the people in the class would sit there just sort of open-mouthed because they had spent week one on the theory, and this was suddenly sort of saying,

Oh my God, this is what it's about.

It was just to make it real for these people.

This course happened at Hendon Police College in London four times a year, and I did 93 of them in a row.

And so, you know, there was a time where if you were in a siege in the UK, you would be helped out by somebody who had heard my story.

But it's been a little while since the last time I went there.

But because I got to talk about it, you know, that was sort of my...