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
