July 08, 2025

Life After Hijacking And A Gunshot To The Head, With Survivor & Speaker Jackie Pflug

48 minutes

Jackie Pflug was a 30 year old newlywed American citizen traveling on Egyptair flight 648 on Thanksgiving of 1985 when the plane was hijacked. Subsequently shot in the head by hijackers who landed the plane in Malta and threw her body out onto the tarmac, Jackie was denied medical help for 5 hours, but somehow, miraculously survived.

Sadly, she was one of very few who did survive that hijacking, but after a harrowing recovery and even more hurdles, she went on to a global keynote speaking career that gave her purpose after years of struggle through epilepsy, seizures, and having to learn to walk and speak again. Not many people have survived what she has.

On today’s podcast, Jackie is opening up about her return to the site of the attack 20 years later, the toll it took on her first marriage, and the weirdness of the fact that life just goes on, (both in the mundane ways and in the subsequent life challenges that we all have to endure) even after you think you’ve survived the worst.

Because the good news and the bad news about surviving the unsurvivable…. is that until it is the end, it is simply not the end.

And luckily for us, Jackie Pflug not only survived but she is still willing and able…to tell the tale.

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