BA pilot hailed after crash landing : "'When everything came to a standstill, I looked out of the window and the undercarriage was gone and the plane was on its belly. The pilot looked very pale.'"
Peter Burkill certainly knows how to manage a crisis and , as usual, you come out with the platitudes and clichés. What else can you do? This man has a remarkable talent and skill because it must have been his worst nightmare and yet, he took on the responsibility for his passengers , his plane and the surrounding environment and used all his logic and skills to save everyone and the plane. Too many serious things are going wrong with planes. It is constantly happening and it is both traumatic and tiresome because planes used to fly. Now people like Peter Burkill get to show us he is indeed a very special human being but the price for him will be high. He will need looking after because the reality will set in and at some stage he will get angry those engines just plane cut out and he was coming in over a built up area into one of the busiest airports in the world. And then he will realise he was the one who averted an unbelievable disaster and his thinking, his capacity to manage is just astounding. The crew also appears to have kept their heads together and the passengers must have been co operating so the whole thing could come together so well for a very fast and effective ground crew. The power of one and the energy of many. The investigation is no doubt going to be very thorough because we just can't keep putting people at risk like this. Pilots like this are in a class of their own. They deserve all the praise they can be offered but they deserve all the care and consideration too.
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