Peter Goers

of knowing what was going to happen.

Why are you feeling guilty?

Well, you always feel guilt, don't you, with death.

I should have done this.

I should have said that.

Why didn't I, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.

I've had more guilt from other deaths, I think, than this because, you know, what could I have done?

Terrified.

I mean, imagine you've just lost two parents at the height of their lives in a plane crash.

So now you have to get on a plane or many planes and fly all around the world.

And it was terrifying.

And, you know, a friend of my father's who was an executor of this state met me at the airport where I had to make a will.

Friends had taken me there, went round to the two news agents at the Adelaide airport and turned over all the Sunday mail.

The copies of the Sunday Mow, because my parents' picture was on the front page, which I never saw at that point.

And then you get on a plane and only... It was years later, writing this book, that I finally realised that, you know, they block off rows...

because naturally, because, you know, you're flying from Adelaide to Melbourne, you don't want to sit with someone who's just grieving and just lost two people in a plane crash.

And the hosties, as we called them then, were marvellous.

They put on, I think, a special senior hostie who just sat with me the entire flight and that happened pretty well all the way to America.

She just held my hand.

Nothing was said, but it was terrifying.