Live on Stage | Bromyard and District Local History Society In 1986, Mike Thexton travelled to Pakistan to say goodbye to his brother, who died in the Karakoram Himalaya three years before. On the way home, his plane was hijacked at Karachi, and he was singled out as a British passport holder to be the next person to be shot. He tells the story of that day, and its effect on his life afterwards, leading to the discovery in 2022 of the reason he survived the bloody shootout at the end of the siege.