Atchison (Co-pilot BA 5390): We have eighty four passengers, sir, and I think that will be all until we're on the ground. Rundle: Roger, that's copied.

On the morning of June 10, 1990, British Airways Flight 5390, a 1971 BAC One-Eleven Series 528FL jetliner carrying 81 passengers and 5 crew members, took off from Birmingham Airport in England ...

In 1990, a British Airways pilot was sucked out of a cockpit window mid-flight. He spent 20 minutes partially dangling out of the plane as the flight crew held his ankles.

A striking photo of a distressed pilot hanging from the window of his BAC 1-11 has gone viral online. As his co-pilot holdsdoggedly onto his ankles, both men seem desperate for the flight to land.

On June 10, 1990, as passengers were preparing to board British Airways Flight 5390 from Birmingham to Malaga, they knew little about the harrowing experience that awaited them. The ensuing events ...

IT was a crisis that no pilot could ever prepare for. At 17,000ft in the sky, the passenger jet’s windscreen blew out – taking the captain with it. He would have been sucked out of the … ...

Meanwhile, co-pilot Atchison lost consciousness. Reflecting on the extraordinary event, Ogden disclosed: "His shirt had been pulled off his back and his body was bent upwards, doubled over round ...

Between cancellations, delays and lost luggage, airline passengers aren't shy about sharing their "travel nightmares". But these misfortunes pale against the ordeal of the pilot who got sucked ...

How a BA pilot got sucked out of a cockpit window, but lived to tell the tale The incident involving BA Flight 5390 remains one of the strangest, most disturbing and most astounding moments in the ...

Just 27 minutes into flight 5390 from Birmingham, UK, to Malaga, Spain, as the plane was travelling over Oxfordshire, two of the six cockpit windows shattered in what would be one of the most ...