CDRW
Surely they where just doing what they are paid ( rather handsomely) to do??
Surely, and particularly in these days when professional pilots are too often regarded as just 'numbers', it's right that the profession should acknowledge excellence??
They crew did their job in exceptionally challenging circumstances and succeeded in bringing the stricken aircraft back without loss of life.
The Award is to
'a member or members of a crew whose outstanding behaviour and action contributed to the saving of their aircraft or passengers.'
Judging by the enthusiastic and sustained applause when the crew collected their Award, the 600+ people present (mainly professional pilots - commercial and military) clearly thought they fully deserved it.
Tudor Owen
Warden,
Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators