When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened.
There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well – too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead – if the hijackers can find out who he is!
And there isn’t much time. One man lies dead on the runway. In a few minutes the hijackers will use their guns again. And the Prime Minister knows who they are going to kill.
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Glossary
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- aboard: on a plane or a ship
- advise: to tell someone what they should do
- aisle a place between lines of seats (e.g. on a plane, in a theatre) where you can walk
- ambassador a person sent to a foreign country to speak for his own country’s government
- attack (v) to try to hurt someone or something
- bend (past tense bent) to turn the top half of the body downwards
- binoculars very strong glasses used to see things far away
- cabin a room on a plane or a ship
- chest the front part of the body between the neck and stomach
- colonel an important officer in the army
- commando section a group of soldiers specially trained for making quick attacks
- control room the building in an airport where people control air traffic by radio
- crew the pilot and all the people who work on a plane
- deal with to do something that needs doing
- decision what you have decided
- departure lounge a room in an airport where passengers wait
- embassy the building where an ambassador lives and works
- fire (v) to shoot a gun
- fist a closed hand with fingers turned inwards
- flash (n) a sudden, very bright light for a very short time
- flight a journey on a plane
- forehead the part of the face above the eyes
- freedom being free; able to do what you want to do
- fuel tanker a large vehicle for carrying petrol
- gentleman a polite word for a man
- goddam (adj, slang) a word used to show you feel strongly about something (e.g. goddam plane)
- government the group of people who control a country
- groan (v) to make a deep, sad sound
- handcuff (v) to lock someone’s hands together with handcuffs (metal rings around the wrists)
- hell a word used with question-words (e.g. Where the hell …) to show anger or surprise
- hijacker a person who takes control of a plane and makes the pilot fly to a different place
- homework schoolwork which you do at home
- honey a word for someone you love very much
- hostess a woman who takes care of passengers on a plane
- innocent an ‘innocent’ person has done nothing bad or wrong
- inspector an important police officer
- instruments in a plane, instruments tell the pilot how high the plane is, how much fuel there is, etc.
- interrupt to stop somebody talking by speaking yourself
- journalist a person who writes for newspapers, television, etc.
- kneel (past tense knelt) to go down or stay with your knees on the ground
- liberation freedom
- list (n) a piece of paper with names written on it
- local time the time in the place you are talking about
- ma’am madam; a polite way of speaking to a woman
- machine gun a gun that fires a lot of bullets very fast
- marine a soldier who is trained to fight on land or sea
- military base a place where soldiers live and work
- military men men from an army; soldiers
- nervous afraid
- on time neither late nor early; at the agreed or correct time
- open-necked with the top buttons of a shirt undone
- pause (v) to stop for a moment;
- pause (n) a short stop
- pig a farm animal; in this story, a word for a very bad person
- point (v) to show with your hand or finger where something is
- pool some liquid (water, blood, etc.) on the ground
- pour to put liquids (water, tea, coffee, etc.) into something
- power people like prime ministers, presidents, etc. have power; they can tell other people what to do pray to talk to God
- press (v) to push hard
- prime minister the most important person in a government
- refuel to bring more fuel to a plane, ship, etc.
- SAS Special Air Service; specially trained British soldiers who are used for difficult kinds of fighting, e.g. against terrorists
- set free to make someone free, e.g. from a prison, from a hijack
- skyjack a hijack in the air
- sweat water that comes out of the skin when you are hot or afraid
- take apart to destroy; to win a battle in a very violent way
- tarmac a hard material used for roads, airports, etc.
- tear (n) water that comes from your eyes when you cry
- tear (past tense tore) to pull something to pieces
- terrorists very violent people who kill, or promise to kill, other people if they don’t get what they want
- throw (past tense threw) to make something move through the air
- tough (of a person) strong, hard, brave
- transmitter a radio that sends messages
- tray a piece of wood (or plastic, etc.) for carrying food and drink