Serves you right for going flying with God-botherers. They ought to realise that aeroplanes are the work of Satan and leave them alone. Why didn't you just chuck him out? Angels can fly, can't they?*
* You'd have to check with Keef on this one, but I'm pretty sure that it was St Augustine, or maybe his pal Gregory the Great, who said "non angli sed angeli sunt" which roughly translates as "watch your angle of attack, they're anglicans".