Few people have to live through a hijack drama.
The closest most of us come is the television broadcasts and newspaper headlines. Like Uli Derickson, the chief flight attendant on the TWA airliner which was hijacked in 1985 shortly after it left Athens for Rome. It was seven years ago - almost to the day. But still, more than most of us, he probably has a degree of insight into the fears of those victims of the latest hijack drama to hit the world's headlines. In Kinahan's case, there were no shots fired, no passengers killed, no tricky demands for the release of political prisoners.