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>> what was your traveling companion's name? >> mendelson. that was her name. we were sitting in our seats. then after a few minutes, somebody stood up in the front of the airplane. and he had a grenade in one hand and pistol in the other. and he was shouting in arabic. i was thinking that this is a drill of the egyptian security and i told myself, wow, tomorrow i would call my parents and i will tell them what a strange flight we had. after a while, i realized, it's not a dream. it's real. and it was very, very scary. >> the lead hijacker was salem chakore. the number two in the mission was o...

Attention of rezaq, who is in the cockpit, and bou said. they both start firing at the sky marshal. so we have cross fire going down the aisle of an aircraft. at some point, a round pierces the skin of the aircraft, which as you know, a plane at 35,000 feet, that's not a good thing. the lights go out. the oxygen masks drop. >> the plane was very quiet. i think everybody was in shock. i didn't let feelings race up. i was so afraid, i was so worried, just being terrified, like i've never been before in my life and i hope i'll never be. i'm not a religious person. i never really believed. but thi...