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Jackie

On Thanksgiving weekend in November of 1985, Jackie was flying to Cairo, Egypt from Athens, Greece, where she had attended a volleyball tournament with a group of students. At the time, she was a special education teacher at the Cairo American School. Ten minutes into Egypt Air Flight #648, three terrorists, calling themselves "The Egypt Revolution," hijacked their flight. A gun battle ensued at an altitude of 35,000 feet as the terrorists took control of the flight. They forced the pilot to land in Valetta, Malta. The terrorists then began to execute one passenger every 15 minutes until their demands for fuel and safe passage were met. Like the four passengers before her, Jackie was shot at point blank range, execution style, thrown from the plane onto the tarmac and left for dead. For five hours, she drifted in and out of consciousness until an airport grounds crew retrieved her body on its way to the morgue. Fifty-nine passengers died during the ordeal. Jackie lived. Over the years, she’s had to adapt to the effects of being shot in the head and the resulting brain injury, which included impaired vision and a loss of short-term memory. She’s overcome her disabilities to such an extent that, today, she is a powerful motivational speaker.
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