Licensed pilot Usman Khawaja is qualified to take the controls of jumbo jets - and England ran out of runway at Edgbaston because the Aussie opener parked the Airbus.
Now Ben Stokes will head to Lord's next week on a wing and a prayer that his best chance of recapturing the Ashes has not disappeared.
England's two-wicket defeat was agony for another sell-out crowd, millions clustered around the TV at home and those in transit struggling to find enough broadband width for score updates.
