AS IF I didn’t need something else to heighten my fear of flying, I stumbled upon an AMA (Ask Me Anything) post on Reddit, from a man around my age who, you know, was casually on his way from Ethiopia to Italy, when HIS PLANE WAS HIJACKED BY THE COPILOT.
Reddit user OK3n was enroute to Geneva, Switzerland, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, via Rome, when masks dropped from their compartments as the plane’s hijacker announced he was cutting off the oxygen. Within 10 hours of the hijacking, OK3n posted his story on Reddit and opened the forum up for others to ask about his experience. While the plane was able to land safely, his story still made me feel anxious: