In 1990, a British Airways pilot was sucked out of a cockpit window mid ... that the wrong bolts were used to install the blown-out windshield, which was swapped during routine maintenance 27 ...

During the flight, the pilot, Captain Timothy Lancaster, was unexpectedly sucked out of the aircraft ... In 1990, the windshield of British Airways Flight 5390 came off at an altitude of 17,000 ...

Captain Tim Lancaster was ripped from his seat instantly and sucked ... out the cockpit window. The explosion had not been a bomb, as Nigel first feared, but was in fact a faulty windshield ...

READ MORE: Family of five visit Yorkshire amusement park named one of best in Europe Captain Tim Lancaster was instantly pulled from his seat and sucked ... turned out to be a faulty windshield ...

But thanks to Ogden and the co-pilot who pulled off an emergency ... survived being half-sucked out the windshield for 18 minutes. Stewards Simon Rogers (left) and Nigel Ogden (right) saved ...

Jam Press “We thought we wouldn’t get out alive,” one of the relieved passengers said. “It’s a miracle the pilot managed to land with that right in his face.” The steel-nerved aviator ...

A single-engine turboprop plane carrying nine passengers made an emergency landing after half the windshield blew out ... the window in front of the pilot blew out entirely, according to Clint ...

Co-pilot Alistair Atcheson probably would have been sucked out of the plane too if ... the wrong bolts were used to install the blown-out windshield, which was swapped during routine maintenance ...