She had been called in when another attendant took sick, but within hours, was being held at gunpoint. “It started out just as a routine flight,” Kaye, now 75, recalls from her South Australian home. “All was going well across the four hour flight until the end when everything changed.” Czech immigrant Miloslav Hrabinec had smuggled aboard a .22 rifle and a sheath knife.
Just as the plane began to make its descent, he emerged from the bathroom, pointed the rifle at Kaye and said, “This is a hijack.”
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