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Jackie Pflug

Jackie Pflug

Best-selling author, speaker, and survivor of the 1985 EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacking, sharing stories of resilience and recovery.

Jul 7, 2026

3:51
But the first time that you said you really remembered hearing it or l- or maybe paying attention to it that made a difference was during the hijacking.
3:59
Correct.
3:59
Yeah, so I was 30 years old when that hijacking happened, and I was a newlywed too.
4:05
And I was living overseas teaching at the Cairo American School at the time, and I had gone for the weekend, uh, with my husband at the time for a volleyball game.
4:17
And, uh, I was there for a few days and had to come back a day early.
4:22
And on the flight that I was on, uh, the Egypt revolution, uh, hijackers from the Ej- Egypt revolution stood up on our, uh, while we were up in the air and told us that if we did what we were told, we would not get hurt.
4:37
And we were in the middle of a hijacking, and there was quite a few...

12 MINS LATER

16:59
Mm.

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