Oct 10, 2026 · 47 min · 16 segments
Frankin and his wife are aboard an aircraft that gets hijacked and rerouted towards Australia. After running out of fuel the plane attempts an emergency water landing that sends it tumbling. Jeff and…
Paula BurrowsHostFranklin and his wife are on vacation in Africa, and they upgrade their tickets to business class at the last minute.
This plane that we were on was going to fly from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, an hour and 40 minutes.
And we settle in.
It, the plane was new.
It's a 767.
It was comfortable.
The plane took off and reached its cruising altitude of 31,000 feet.
And then I saw this guy come down the right aisle, and he's sort of waving his arms.
He almost looks like he's a bit crazy.
Kind of a tall, thin guy.
And he's got a shoebox-looking thing in his hands with some wires sticking out of it.
Uh, to be honest with you, it looked like a, a teenage high school workshop idea of a fake bomb for a high school play or something like that.
Then, uh, within a few seconds later, on the left-hand side, a guy, tall, thin, comes flitting down, almost gliding down noiselessly.
Absolutely noiselessly.
A total contrast to the other guy.
They disappeared up in the front.
And we're in the back of business class.
You can't really see.
And, you know, you're nervous.
You're wondering what's going on.
About 20 minutes later, so that would make it about 11:30, they came on the intercom.
Uh, then they spoke in French, which I don't understand very well, but I could pick up the little gist of it, that they were hijackers and they wanted to go to Australia.
I immediately got real nervous, because flying to Australia is 5,300 miles away.
And I had flown small planes many, many years ago, so I'm sort of interested in aviation.
Franklin and his wife are on vacation in Africa, and they upgrade their tickets to business class at the last minute.
This plane that we were on was going to fly from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, an hour and 40 minutes.
And we settle in.
It, the plane was new.
It's a 767.
It was comfortable.
The plane took off and reached its cruising altitude of 31,000 feet.
And then I saw this guy come down the right aisle, and he's sort of waving his arms.
He almost looks like he's a bit crazy.
Kind of a tall, thin guy.
And he's got a shoebox-looking thing in his hands with some wires sticking out of it.
Uh, to be honest with you, it looked like a, a teenage high school workshop idea of a fake bomb for a high school play or something like that.
Then, uh, within a few seconds later, on the left-hand side, a guy, tall, thin, comes flitting down, almost gliding down noiselessly.
Absolutely noiselessly.
A total contrast to the other guy.
They disappeared up in the front.
And we're in the back of business class.
You can't really see.
And, you know, you're nervous.
You're wondering what's going on.
About 20 minutes later, so that would make it about 11:30, they came on the intercom.
Uh, then they spoke in French, which I don't understand very well, but I could pick up the little gist of it, that they were hijackers and they wanted to go to Australia.
I immediately got real nervous, because flying to Australia is 5,300 miles away.
And I had flown small planes many, many years ago, so I'm sort of interested in aviation.
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