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Hero pilot who helped save 152 lives in dramatic Heathrow crash landing is flying high again Captain Peter Burkill was back at the controls two weeks ago and is currently on his third trip to the US east coast The British Airways pilot dubbed 'Captain Courageous' when he helped to save 152 lives in a dramatic crashlanding at Heathrow is back at the controls after not flying for five months. Captain Peter Burkill, 43, his co-pilot John Coward and cabin crew were praised for landing the packed Boeing 777 safely after both its engines failed. The stricken jet missed crashing into Gordon Brown's Jaguar on a perimeter road as the Prime Minister's motorcade was on its way to the airport. Since the engines of his plane shut down at the end of the flight from Beijing in January, the captain had flown for BA only once, in February,... [read full story]
