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Think life was about wearing the right clothes and driving the right car and all of a sudden i'm in the midst of a hijacking. i felt very scared and alone, and i was thousands of miles away from my family, and i thought no one knew what was happening to me. >> jackie, describe the emotions as you slowly started to recover, realizing what had happened to you, probably feeling that it was a gift that you even survived this however, you've said before that this was a combination of emotions of fear and also survivors guilt. so explain that to us. >> yeah. the fear was i just felt afraid to leave ...

Vision, hardly -- i have hardly any vision left. my short-term memory was just about nothing. i couldn't tell time. i didn't know how to count money. there were a lot of things that were happening also in my life and also epilepsy, as well. so part of that fear also was the post traumatic stress syndrome that was a part of that, and what you had mentioned which was survivor's guilt. on that aircraft there were 98 on board that plane in two days of the hijacking and 59 people lived and 9 of them were children, and they all died. so if only i could have saved one of the children's lives, that wa...

1985, jackie flug on a flight when the flight was hijacked and forced to land in malta after a midair gun battle between air marshals and the hijackers. after their demands were refused the hijackers began killing passengers one by one and dumping their bodies down the steps on to the tarmac. the final american shot in the head was jackie, the hijackers and even the medics thought she was dead, so did jackie. but jackie survived, recovered and wrote a book about her experience titled "miles to go before i sleep" and she joins me now live from minneapolis. jackie, nice to have you with us. i wa...

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