Peter Goers

They'd put it on for me.

And there was one other passenger who refused to sit with me and I flew through the night in a terrible lightning storm with shocking turbulence.

It was terrifying.

Yes.

You can't... All you can focus on is your loss, your immediate loss of the two people you love.

You're not so aware of the wider catastrophe.

You know, I felt that later, of course.

But, I mean, that sounds selfish, but...

You know, there's only so much loss you can bear at any given moment.

Naturally, you're most concerned for your own loss, I suppose.

Lots.

It was the Sheraton Airport Hotel, so we could...

It was only a couple of kilometres from the crash site.

So there, yes, in the hotel and immediately I'm summoned to meet lawyers and this began the process of dealing with corporate America.

A couch, a couple of lawyers, a coffee table.

There was no corporate apology but sort of regret.

And I was told immediately that I was not to leave the hotel under any circumstances.

I was not to talk to anybody who wasn't a Pan Am official in the hotel.

Why?

I said, because they said lawyers, ambulance-chasing lawyers are coming from all over America and they want your business.