Pilot's Arm Came Off During Landing!

[ChillDoubt]

Jeezus Aitch Kerrist!

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-28778728

I thought pilots had to fulfil certain physical criteria i.e. 2 legs, 2 eyes and surely 2 ARMS!(of their own).

[youngmafbog]

He's harmless.

Joking aside, the real problem is; he was with a co-pilot whom he could not trust to land it.

[emeritus]

Youngmafbog he was seconds from Landing. No time to transfer to Co-Pilot that would have been an even more dangerous manouvre.

[Old_Geezer]

It was his own, bought & paid for.

[youngmafbog]

Fair enough, although that was not how I heard it reported.

[emeritus]

Apparently it happened while he was carrying out the Flare manouvre which is where the nose is lifted just prior to landing

[EDDIE51]

''All pilots have 2 legs of their own'' what about Douglas Bader
' The Legless Wonder' one of the best fighter pilots of WW2 but no legs?

[anotheoldgit]

Douglas Bader had no trouble.

[anotheoldgit]

Beat me to it EDDIE

[Sqad]

Douglas Bader had all sorts of trouble, mainly of convincing the Air Ministry to let him fly again. In 1940......Britain needed pilots.

Also Bader was not responsible for .."passengers" .

[EDDIE51]

^^ This pilot had an adapted plane as well, it had an attachment on the control column for hooking onto his arm .

[Gromit]

The Guardian report left an amusing mental picture...

// Pilot's prosthetic limb detached as he attempted to land in Belfast in gusty conditions,  //

[ToraToraTora]

I'm with chill on this, ok all very PC having an amputee flying a plane, cold comfort when he stuffs it into the run way.

[dave50]

Political correctness always comes before the public's safety.

[ludwig]

// Apparently it happened while he was carrying out the Flare manouvre which is where the nose is lifted just prior to landing //

If he was trying to lift his nose with a prosthetic arm, I can see how it might have dropped off. He should have used the other one.