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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Sophie Goodall

Pilot sucked out of plane window as cabin crew held onto him by the ankles

A pilot for British Airways was sucked out of the cockpit window of his plane after the glass windowpanes shattered, with a member of the cabin crew only able to hold on to him by his ankles until the plane safely landed.

The incident, which occurred on June 20, 1990, was due to the wrong bolts being used to fit the windscreen of the plane.

The aircraft was 13 minutes into its flight from Birmingham to Malaga, at 17,300ft, when two of the cockpit windows shattered.

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