The man’s arm went up and he threw the grenade through the open door.
There was a very loud BANG! at the front of the plane, and a flash of white light that burned Carl’s eyes. Almost immediately there was an even louder BANG! BANG! and two more flashes of white light.
Carl could not move. The noise was so loud and the light so bright that he sat still as a stone. He saw the girl hijacker and the bearded man standing quite still too, with their guns in their hands and their mouths open. Then a man in white ran through the door with a gun
in his hand. He shot the girl and the bearded man before they could move. The hijacker in the black shirt came out of the Captain’s cabin behind the man in white, but two other men in white came through the door and shot him too. The two prisoners, in their yellow
raincoats, tried to get to the door, but the man in white knocked them to the floor and handcuffed their hands behind their backs.