Originally Posted by
NoelEvans
I clearly remember seeing it on the front pages of the newspapers at the time (when I was a commercial flying instructor) -- and being impressed!
With modern training, I wonder how many pilots would be able to handle a situation like that?
For now, we only know of one. And he was military trained?
Many years ago in Dublin, I was working on starting a low cost to compete with Ryanair, which was just about finished at that time. (pre O'Leary). There was a bit of publicity and pilots were calling looking for work. This man was one of them, and it was the first I heard of it. Like the man above said, very matter of fact in the telling of it. Title of this thread...absolutely.