The folly of these historic sent back until the job only takes to beat. Special come on just. Hello and welcome again to rewind on elizabeth. When we 1st lost Al Jazeera English more than 10 years ago our goal was to seek out the sort of documentaries on the channel simply werent doing well here on rewind we revisit some of the best of them to find out how they came about and how the stories moved on well today we rewind into 2006 and one of the earliest of those programs for more than 30 years mohamad made was a legendary figure in africa a photo and video journalist who chronicled the momentous events of the 2nd half of the 20th century a turbulent time for the continent mo and me was a series made by mahomets on sunday in which he tells the story of his fathers career and camera picks the agency has father created a brave and a highly respected figure in Africa Mohamed came to global prominence when his film and photos of the mine 984 ethiopian famine shocked the world and led directly to the International Live aid phenomenon where today were returning to the final part of the series which tells the tragic story of mohammeds death and the legacy he left behind the 1st lets take a look at. The stories he chronicled for newspapers and t. V. Stations across the world. With the. Well as you can see muhammads korea took him to the heart of the action in africa boston a tragic twist it was finally to find himself on what in the at the center of a global story here is the final episode of law and me. My name is sally mommy son of renowned photojournalist mommy to me dad was a regular commuter to addis ababa one reason was that he published the inflight magazine of Ethiopian Airlines we still do. Data business colleague brian todd lee checked in on november 23rd 1906 flight 809612 nairobi a saturday dad flew in 1st tightly in business. It was a last minute decision to take brian along he hated flying. Captain lola but it takes me aboard a flight simulator. Its programmed to reenact what happened to flight 8961 was anything unusual other than in any premonition you had about this flight. Now it does my daughter for the day. I celebrated her birthday i tom and i came out for the flight to the Beautiful Day sun its guys claire. Started out very nice. When we took off when the plane took a. Before it even leveled out. We heard the i heard some noise coming from back and then i noticed 2 gentlemen running up the aisles towards the cockpit so they came into the cockpit they came home in the economy there were 3 of them they took the fire extinguisher and they started beating the copilot crawled along. I said guys hold on whats going on here shut up the flight is hijacked ok no problem i saw moment i mean come out twice the cabin to the passenger compartment Economy Class and talked. To some of us to try to to to to assist him all to stand up against the hijackers but. Most people were i think a little too scared so i assume he is a very brave man and. What none of the passengers knew was that the hijackers had demanded to be taken to australia ironically theyd picked australia out of the inflight magazine that died himself published. Ok guys i thought. This flight is just going to nairobi. We dont carry inaccurate australia lets learn to nairobi really if you will and then we can go to australia either i told them its impossible. The hijackers refused to allow captain a budget to refuel at nairobi or mombasa. So you cant go at the new possible bus and yeah and then last month and i was trying to fly along the coast right so that i dont want to be far from the. They are the line. Then he said why are you flying along the coast of australia is somewhere to this direction. And i took the ok i thought i had the heading. And now this message came you know if you told. You see this fish and low fuel were running out of fuel guys so we just kept climbing like this. So you were circling the island of this i was sort of coming at diana i decided out of anyone else right because the tito de de and. I now flight 8961 was circling above the camorra as i look. So i just kept on going i told the guys were going to die theyre running out of fuel im real already lost one engine. They started talking with the guys and this time i took my makeup i told the passengers they descendant the man remarked. About the last one engine you took of starvation and were going to build out that engine varies so hed run out of fuel it already lost one engine. And that he had no alternative but to crash on and off it was realize. This is ending differently is that we all thought that that would be where she usually people will feel maybe one airport the other sort of thing but you know thats when the panic set in the reality actually go on the wall so yeah this could be the end one time. I heard the door open yes i attended about i saw your father standing on a dime he was standing and talking to you i decided to study i dont write you a thing he does the people i could see better just as yet just as he was making he was trying to get people to stand up. And help him. And stand up to it again you know stand up to the streets but most people. Think rather too to scare. You things because he was a he had been in this situation many tell us or if hes been in many trying situations as we all know and i guess he stands up to these challenges a lot easier than most people would you know. Now that appearing as a descending right as good he said you had the time you have to go. True or false but i doubt i said guys this is finished now without all that people know that to do with my right hand side i dont know they did it here is the single adult on my list. Disengage that he did from on this country album control right then i disconnect the start of planet earth. And i had to start flying it myself and he says he was struggling like this and it was pushing and i was on and i was trying to recover from that condition you know he was doing like this. And i was trying to recover people and the screaming and shouting calling up jesus. Running up and down the aisles people trying to put on their life jackets and not finding them the skills. We would have 21000. 00 we witnessed god that angels right. So you were just basically gliding off to that point thats where the 21000 feet you were just blood was up 21000 feet yes started to get hot on the plane the lights on the to flicker started to aspire and they got us on the dock. And those all this you know people were screaming and it was fists a lot of panic in the croft. Trying to be gentle in this time working side by that ok you have to hold on to all day and i was talking to my son as we came down and people could actually see whats on both sides of the plane it sort of went quiet this was like the last few moments case that they were going to make you know you know make it. And i just kept looking. Out the window and i could see water is good. Good to start the other day. And then finally. I guess maybe 5 or 10 so. Comes before we hit the water i went down its to shut my eyes and held on to seaton from his waiting for the impact on the. Honeymoon couple from south africa taking photographs on the beach. People were struggling to get out of the seats and you know tugging on to others and you know all that was a bit scary because i was under water and of course you have to hold your breath all this time is that a shock yeah but finally i did get out and when i got out i looked up and thats i saw the sky. And i said ok this must be the other side must have crossed over and then when i leveled out and looked up the oceanus all these both looked like tourists said ok it must still be our hunter. And. The camorra is in the holidaymakers bring the passengers assured alive dead and halfway between. Of dad there is no sign. Of 175. 00 passengers from 36. 00 countries 123. 00 perished including the hijackers but dad there were still no news only an ominous silence. I went to Wilson Airport nairobi with my friend Duncan Willetts we just had an aircraft to fly us to morally the capital of the come or is where a makeshift morgue would set off. So we drove to this meat factories right right near the ocean and we went inside and there was poured probably 80 to 100 bodies lying on the floor in rows and they were covered by sheet and we had to basically go through each one to find brian and dad broad tetley was on the flight as well we had to go through each one to find them so duncan started at one end and i started at the other end and i thought i found dads body and. I really didnt know what what i found is what he and i put the sheet back on and i walked outside and i brace basically brought down what were your thoughts on the floor we never actually talked about this when we were there we didnt really say much on the trip there did you think he would have made it there when we were flying over were you pretty convinced that he had well i must admit i was pretty convinced that he died you know we were trying were trying to tell you maybe all of your you know we have a couple of drinks very little but i knew we had because theres no noise from. You know how do you survive we would have heard that was his job to tell the world over you know report on it and sadly the this was it for birding that we both go. What did you feel you were close to the both of them very close to the both of them what did you feel a devastated absolutely devastated that the going search would. Completely nonsensical useless waste of time money when the thing that should never never have happened i mean Car Accidents happen you know like in the berthoud and cowrites we all know about the fact that some people survived and some people didnt 2 thirds died and thats what they say is the average for the question the c. One unfortunately you know to bryan was in the column business business and everybody in business. You father didnt survive but the guy next to him to know whether he did know we see belfast which is typical muhammad you know you dont either and he shot out a lot of them got killed because he cracked their head on the on the luggage thing. Had he been able to choose a way to go i think this would have been one of those not necessarily the hijack or a botched hijacking but the fact that it was the biggest story of the day he wasnt even covering it it was the biggest story of the day it has put him down in that it it kept his status to legendary because of the way died that he just been you know an old man that passed away the sleep the drama wouldnt have been that the drama of his life wouldnt have been there and he had that drama right to the very end and you know i think that in some way that gives you some consolation for whatever its worth his life philosophy was that if i can do it anybody else can. We are in the most powerful profession in the world the stories are we do reach millions of people we can make a difference and if we use that power responsibly it can change the world and it can change africa which desperately desperately needs it. What you see in in my office and it is my office its not his office its my office but what you see in my office is a memory to somebody that i idolized but somebody that it cheve more than any other african journalist has achieved in history and i want to remember that whenever i feel that its too much that i can cope with this that i can handle a situation i just have to look around me at what he achieved and i have the strength to continue and i have his pictures around because i feel hes still watching over me to a certain extent i think ive spent the last years since hes died trying to prove to him that i know im not the disappointment that he thought i was was the she was. Was and it was. I have this recurring nightmare of him not having died in that plane crash and walking into this office and screaming at me and saying or the have you done to my office where all my things get out of my chair and get. Out from behind my desk and what are you doing here i do have i mean its not a nightmare that hes still alive thats not the nightmare boy but its the repercussions and me sitting there trying to justify what ive done over the last decade to. Immortalized his memory to a certain degree and to continue his legacy and to continue his company. I think there would be an inner peace i would call at a certain point in my life where i would feel that i have nothing left to prove to him i think. Perhaps. A string of awards perhaps some recognition for what ive done would. Allow me to sit back and say dad. I hope youre happy down. The final episode of ma and me well as we know a lot has happened in africa since 2006 and although most no longer with us has sound so lame has carried on the camera picks today and hes here with us now to talk about keeping faith with has fathers mission and the role of photojournalism and todays africa it is great to have him with us here today wonderful to be here elizabeth thank you thank you i believe that george series more than made it was actually the 1st that was broadcast on aljazeera it was the opening series or documentary series that was done and it kind of you know it it when i was pitching it to to the original team that started all jazeera i felt that it ticked all the boxes that aljazeera was stunned you know stood for wanted to portray itself as which was stories. On the sols. Stories that dealt with parts of the world that many bar the board cost is rarely looked at it was a story of a muslim who wasnt a terrorist you say in the film that you have this recurring nightmare that youre never going to live up to the mens work of your father how do you feel about that now i still have the same night where i look i realize ive come to terms with his life his life was was truly unique in an african context in the global context and you know the body of work ive now spent time looking at the body of his work its just phenomenal you over 3000000 images that he clicked in 40 odd years how do you think africa has changed in the 2 decades since his passing both bad and good what i think i think it has changed its changed a lot. In some ways its changed more in the last 2 decades that it did in the last 50 years before that there is been the technology has been a huge leap things like mobile money and. And and all these apps and wonderful innovations that have come out of the quantum of leadership has been a massive problem in kenya alone in 2007 in 2017 we had you know of this massive election problem when 2007 we have postelection violence in south africa weve got a whole change of guard with people getting fed up with corruption so some things havent got worse how dangerous is it still to film in many parts of the continent you know when he was operating one of the things that he taught me was how to get in and out of war situations and for him no matter how gung ho or passionate he was no story was ever worth dying for one of his favorite sayings to me which ill never forget is not. Is he said im not afraid of the bullet with my name on it but i dont want to be killed by the one that says to whom it may concern going into a war zone he said the 1st thing i look for is the exit its not how to get it its how to get out because theres no point of nobody sees your pictures theres no point going to these places and putting your life on the line but in the end unfortunately he did die. Not by not from a bullet it was a to whom it may concern kind of a situation it was a case of his luck running out but not just his luck with a lot of other people and it was it was a freak accident it was a it was. A hijacking that was not necessarily was unnecessary it was a bunch of amateurs if theres such a thing as amateur i jack ers these were a bunch of amateurs nobody to this day ever been able to explain how they got on that plane they were escaped convicts how they got passports how they managed to make it onto that flight and he tried to live very and to convince them yeah he was not got we had spent most of his life negotiating with our maniacs i mean that was what he did for a living and so he you know he tried he did everything remember this was pretty 911 had been post 911 i think you know 100 people would have stood up and jumped on top of these guys and tried to take the plane back and tragic end but an absolutely extraordinary life we thank you very much something for coming in and talking to us about about him thats what an absolute pleasure thank you very much thank you on that set from us but do join us again next time and check out the rewind page at c. N. N. 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