But calls from several passengers unnoticed by the hijacker helped the authorities to lean what was going on inside the plane, he said. Shigeru Fukami, 21 ,called home from a toilet to tell his family he was all right. Tatsuo Yammoto, head of an engineering company, called his travel agent to say that some passengers were blindfolded and others had their hands tied. One passenger used his video camera to record scenes on board the hijack plane which were shown on TV after the hostages’ release.