Mike Thexton, 27, was on a plane from Karachi, Pakistan to New York when it was hijacked by four Palestinian Terrorists in 1986. The terrorists held him at gunpoint for 12 of the next 15 hours, during which time they killed one passenger and injured dozens. Thexton was eventually allowed to return to the main cabin where he overheard the terrorists discussing a suicide mission. Thexton tells the terrorists that his brother, who had died 3 years earlier in the Himalayas, had saved him and the terrorists apologize. In a rare conversation, Thexton speaks with the terrorist who held him at gunpoint about what happened that day.

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