English essay on hijacked plane
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I moved from my native Cork to New York when I was 18. Eleven years later, when I boarded TWA Flight 840 on 29 August 1969, I was a seasoned traveller who enjoyed flying.
The plane was headed for Tel Aviv, but my friend Cathy and I were going to Athens, the second last stop; two friends were joining the flight in Rome. Cathy and I were in first class with only two other passengers when we left Italy. We had noticed the woman who was sat directly behind us while we were on the coach to the plane at Leonardo da Vinci airport. She was very striking, young and glamorous. The other passenger, a man, was in the aisle seat of the front row on the opposite side of the plane. Not long after we took off, the woman moved to the aisle seat just in front of me, and struck up a conversation with the man. We were quite impressed, and thought she seemed sophisticated, chatting up a man she didn’t know.
Then, as one of the stewardesses, as they were called then, was bringing the captain his lunch, the woman shoved her aside and rushed into the cockpit, rapidly followed by the man. I knew immediately that we’d been hijacked. Cathy couldn’t believe it. The woman, who we later found out was Leila Khaled, announced that the plane had been taken on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and said that there was one among us who was responsible “for the killing of Palestinian men, women and children”. Cathy and I were moved to the back of the plane to seats near our friends. People were very shocked, but there was no panic. I imagine this was because the crew remained very professional, and most people hadn’t witnessed the hijack.HOPE IT HELPED YOU