what happened to the hippy man?
Mike Thexton
KARACHI, PAKISTAN, 5 September 1986
Four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists storm a Pan Am jumbo jet as the passengers embark. The pilots escape, the terrorists shoot a passenger and throw his body out of the plane. They collect in passports and call Michael John Thexton to the front of the plane as the next hostage to die. A bearded, ragged figure rises from a seat and goes forward. A little Indian girl sees him go, and asks her parents for months afterwards,
‘What happened to the hippy man?’
In the first edition of this book there were 32 pages of colour pictures. All the photographs from the first edition are included in this website, arranged to match the chapters in the text, together with a few more - there is more space in a website.
Chapter 1: Foreword and forewarning
Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow
Chapter 3: Homeward bound
Chapter 4: To the airport
Chapter 5: It begins
Chapter 6: This is a hijack
Chapter 7: The passport raffle
Chapter 8: Saying prayers
Chapter 9: Settling down to wait
Chapter 12: The beginning of the end
Chapter 14: The terminal
Chapter 15: The Sheraton
Chapter 16: The morning after
Chapter 17: The journey home
Chapter 18: On the news
Chapter 20: Yesterday's news?
Chapter 21: Dealing with it
Chapter 22: 1992 and 2000
Chapter 24: Meanwhile, back in a Pakistani jail…
Chapter 26: Jamal
Chapter 27: The federal court
Chapter 28: The case for the defence
Chapter 29: What I learned in America
Chapter 30: Award and lawsuit
Chapter 31: Book and letters
Chapter 32: Films
Chapter 33: Questions and answers