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Old 13th Aug 2009, 18:11
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strake
 
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I'm abroad at the moment and have just watched an interview with this "pilot" on BBC World.
I can only suggest that this man lives in some sort of dreamworld where the CAA and AAIB do not exist. Of course, it may be that he is extremely clever, realises that he might be in a bit of trouble on the old sufficient fuel front and is going for the "I'm barking mad" defense.
However, whilst any pilot might cringe in embarassment at this story, the general public, if I go by what I hearing at this bar in Narita, think he is a wonderful chap who's gritted his teeth, done the decent thing by crashing into a tree and thereby saved hundreds of lives at the golf club, school, nunnery etc.
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