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Irish Mirror
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Anita McSorley & Sophie Goodall

Pilot sucked out of plane window on flight to Spain as cabin crew held onto his ankles

A pilot who was sucked out of a plane window on a flight to Spain miraculously survived the ordeal and even returned to work just months later.

British Airways pilot Captain Tim Lancaster was pulled out of the cockpit window after the glass windowpanes shattered, and a brave cabin crew member held onto him by the ankles until the plane landed safely.

The terrifying incident happened on June 20, 1990, 13 minutes into a flight from Birmingham to Malaga in Spain at 17,300ft.

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