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Pilot shows confused plane what's up
August 12 2003 at 11:24AM
London - A British pilot took matters into his own hands by repairing a defective computer on a Boeing 757 himself and returning to England with 20 passengers, the Times reported on Tuesday.
A monitor on the MyTravel aircraft last Friday indicated that the plane was airborne despite being parked on the tarmac in Menorca for about seven hours.
Covered in oil after resetting a sensor in the plane's nosewheel, the pilot stood on a chair in the terminal building and pleaded with the exhausted ........................