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?

Shall I tell my Topgun story?

Tell us, MB!!! Tell us!

Thanks for that metaphor Expat (emetophobe turns green). I was watching him in Casanova the other day. Gorgeous.

i did find myself welling up a bit at all the best of human endeavour stuff. The bloke Coward just managed to get the plane over the A30 at 6 metres, before the plane went over the fence into the airport. can you imagine being a car underneath at that point?

didn't cassanova have syphillis?

Yes go on MB, tell us (nothing else to do tonight).

I know a pilot

ooh she is lovely

Yes, me too re Tennant - not Simm though!

People park along that road to watch planes landing.

Bet they'll think twice next time....

all pilots are and unflappable

You just remineded me Expat - one of my friends once cauight herbes off a pilot

Camp pilots

Lady pilots

It's a wonder planes aren't falling out of the skies all over.

Was once watching Top Gun with a super-ditzy friend of mine - the sort of girl who would regularly forget to put detergent into the washing machine - and, during one of the air acrobatic bits, she said thoughtfully: 'I'd be really rubbish at that.'

We all nodded in agreement.

Herbes fines?

LL - did it hit anyone?!!
Met a verr' foxy pilot and less foxy navigator at Edinburgh Waverley once - big fuck up with the trains, and we somehow latched on to each other (yes, I followed them). They spent a long time cheekily chatting me up, telling me to dump DH (or fiance as he was at the time). Train came and they fucked off to first class with barely a backward glance! Pah.

herbe?

basil on the cock was it?

pmsp - p not b

"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."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry ... I have tears coming down my face I'm laughing so much.

I have a friend who is a pilot... she is a lovely person, but there's NO WAY I'd call her calm

I also have it on good authority from her that most of the other pilots she knows are hyper.

This is my pilot friend ... no I've never flown with her (I would do if she bloody well offered though... hint, if she's reading this)

yes, MB, come on!

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Have met one airline pilot who was a complete twat, mind. But the exception can prove the rule, I suppose.

I was once shown round a Sea King by a swoonsome pilot. God, he was gorgeous. Only later, when the pics came back, I realised he was actually rather little and ginger. Apologies to small ginger men, but I really had come away with the impression that this man was 6ft tall and Clooney-ish...