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A BA captain was sucked out of a cockpit window mid-flight 30 years ago and lived to tell the tale

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A British Airways captain was sucked out of a cockpit window mid-flight 30 years ago and lived to tell the tale – after a flight attendant held on to his trouser belt It was June 10, 1990, and the flight crew had performed a routine take-off  But then the windscreen of the Malaga-bound plane blew … Read more

TUI pilots watched in horror as a WHEEL rolled past cockpit at Manchester airport, report reveals 

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Brits flying home for Christmas had a fright when a wheel fell off a holiday jet while it was landing and then rolled past the cockpit as the two pilots watched in horror, a report has revealed. The TUI airliner had just touched down at Manchester airport after an otherwise ‘uneventful’ Christmas Eve flight from Agadir … Read more

British passenger overpowered by cabin crew on Jet2 flight after he ‘hammered on the cockpit door’

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‘Screaming’ British passenger is overpowered by cabin crew on Jet2 flight from Istanbul after he ‘started hammering on the cockpit door’ forcing an emergency landing in Corfu The aircraft was travelling from Istanbul to Manchester airport on Wednesday Crew activated an ’emergency’ situation signal just one hour into its journey Plane, carrying 220 passengers, then … Read more

Cockpit video captures couple’s terrifying mid-air drama as their plane’s flight controls jam

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Mayday! Cockpit video captures couple’s terrifying mid-air drama as their plane’s flight controls jam and husband has to make an emergency landing Four-seater plane bounces off grassy verges before coming to a screeching halt It touched down in Membury airfield, Berkshire, 50 miles from destination Wife exclaimed after landing: ‘Where are we? What the hell … Read more

The 1950s bomber that’s been converted into a Somerset Airbnb lodge with a double bed in the cockpit

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Plane-ly amazing! The 1950s nuclear strike aircraft that’s been converted into a boutique Airbnb lodge, with a double bed in the cockpit The converted 1950s English Electric Canberra bomber affords superb views over the Somerset countryside  It has a double bed in the cockpit, where guests can gaze through the window at the night’s sky … Read more

Coronavirus India: Pilots leave cockpit window to avoid ‘victim’

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Shocking moment pilots hastily clamber out the cockpit window to avoid a potential coronavirus victim onboard a plane in India AirAsia pilots climbed out of window and onto a set of stairs in New Dehli, India Footage filmed on the tarmac shows one pilot taking luggage from the other Their hasty escape comes as the global … Read more

‘Drunk’ man is arrested by anti-terror police after ‘trying to storm cockpit’ at Heathrow

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‘Drunk’ man is arrested by anti-terror police after ‘trying to storm cockpit’ on Malaysia Airways flight as it came into land at London Heathrow Officers were called to the scene at roughly 4.30am just after plane touchdown   Police said: ‘Officers have arrested a man on suspicion of being drunk’   Malaysian Airlines flights have now all … Read more