Summary On A Plane By Miriam Moss

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This book is a true story about the author, Miriam Moss as a teenager on a plane. Anna, the teenage girl traveling back to school on the plane interferes with a switched destination to a desert due to hijackers. Anna and other passengers were held hostage for 4 days straight. Anna creates a relationship with people sitting near her staying positive with support. Once the plane was landed on a desert the hijackers switched off the engines and were in control with the threat of blowing up the plane all in the means to free Palestine, the home of the hijackers. Passengers are struggling to find water and food supplies to survive. During this all the passengers had no idea what was going on. The series of threats was than over when the captain

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