Was there a thread SWOONING over the BA pilot who bravely landed that plane and saved all those lives and then went for a curry?

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Surely there was? Direct me to it please.
I was fanning myself over the Evening Standard on this story. He's a 43 father of 3 who is capable and manly and swoony as far as I'm concerned. Bet he's got one of those reassuring BA pilot voices too

Either direct me to thread or tell me I'm sad if it's just me swooning.

And is his wife a mumsnetter I wonder?

What?????

I think pilots have to be calm and all that don't they. Absolutely no point in being a pilot if you're a bit of a flapper and prone to fits of helpless giggles and so on.

(Not to underplay Captain Coward's extreme calmness.)

MT - woman responsible for getting everyone out? Yes, she was wonderful too - almost more terrifying to be in the cabin with 150 passengers, knowing things were disastrously wrong and not being able to be doing anything but waiting. Apparantly the cabin crew were exemplary.

The article refers to power failure at 30,000 feet. Shudder.

So what is DH like in an argument MB??

That would (and does actually) do my nut in! (am having a fit of the preverbials tonight - don't mind me langage)

WW ypu never get my scattologoval humnour

All the stress showed in his hair though. He is the same age as me but looks 10 years older with all the grey.

My first bf was a pilot.

DG likes those young types .

He has won every argument that we have never had!

He just refuses to get drawn in, waits for me to calm down. I realise that I've been a bit of an arse, and say sorry!

In 20 years we have had about 6 or so actual arguments. Those I won!

PMSL Expat.

Well, yes, you might have a point there.

Yes Blu. (hello btw, not 'seen' you around for a bit)

WW, in real speak - No 1 was having a no 2 - ie, shitting himself

Sorry, MT - I am very old though you know - (generation gap )

Hello Expat - you speaking to me??

actualy, is it a crap a no1 or a no2?

How crap am I??

a crap is a number 2

am PMSL at his neighbour

'Mrs Firminger said she was not surprised Mr Burkill dealt with the situation so well.

She said: "He's absolutely gorgeous. He's all you imagine an airline pilot to be. He's very good looking, very calm.'

she has to be very embarassed, surely

Of course, MT, but DG and I have long clashed over, erm, taste in men .

oh good, I was right...for once

I mean, we're talking David Tennant and the kid who plays Robin Hood as lotharios.

And she thought Dumbledore was still alive, too .

I saw that bit about the neighbour too. I wondered how many crises they had in her neighbourhood that she could possibly judge how he would behave when the power cuts out in a 777. It is hardly akin to the barbecue not lighting is it?

I do like older men too Expat. Just, I have a very eclectic taste in men.

That last one was to MB about craps (need a pedant to tell me where to put that apostrophe, sorry), not you Expat over men...y'see how misunderstandings can happen dont you?? I am ver thoughtless of a night too sometimes, I apologise

'S okay.

DG knows I'm taking the piss, too, because she just needs to realise that David Tennant is as attractive as a bucket of sick.

I'm with you on that one expat.

Weedy

MrsJC, you should write for the soaps I tell you - I'm hooked!