The Pilot Who Was Sucked Out A Jet Window At 17,400 Feet — And Lived

Pilot Tim Lancaster thought British Airways Flight 5390 on June 10,1990, would be a straight-forward holiday hop in clear weather from Birmingham, England, to the Spanish resort city of Malaga on the Costa del Sol - until there was an enormous bang as the front windshield on the captain’s side of the flight deck blew off and he was sucked headfirst out the gaping hole by the rapid decompression.

A re-creation of what happened 17,400 feet above the English countryside

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