Months before 9/11, a passenger seized control of a Boeing 747 and nearly crashed it into the Sahara.

Everyone survived - including a curious ensemble of famous passengers - but no one quite recovered.

Kate Mossman tells the story of Flight 2069 to Oli Dugmore.

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The greatest aviation disaster that didn't happen

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