Originally Posted by
chevvron
One of our guys at Halton (later became CFI at Wycombe Air Centre) nearly donated a finger too. He went to leap out to attach the cables to the retrieve vehicle and a ring on his finger got caught in the mesh surrounding the cab leaving him hanging from his finger for a few seconds until his ring bent and he was released. Had to have some stitches in his finger though!
Was there when Dicky Bird did that, I still cringe thinking about it ! I think he flew with BA for some time and has logged over 40,000 hours ,saw him at WAC 5 years ago training on Cessna.