Chapters: British Airways Flight 5390, Mohawk Airlines Flight 40, Braniff Flight 250, Eas Airlines Flight 4226, Philippine Airlines Flight 158. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: British Airways Flight 5390 was a British Airways flight between Birmingham International Airport in England and M laga, Spain. On 10 June 1990 an improperly installed pane of the windscreen failed, blowing the plane's captain halfway out of the aircraft, with his body firmly pressed against the window frame. The first officer managed to perform an emergency landing in Southampton with no loss of life. The aircraft, captained by Tim Lancaster and co-piloted by Alastair Atchison, was BAC One-Eleven Series 528FL G-BJRT. It took off at 7:20 am local time, with 81 passengers, four cabin crew and two flight crew. Co-pilot Atchison handled a routine take-off, and relinquished control to Lancaster as the plane established itself in its climb. Both pilots subsequently released their shoulder harnesses, while Lancaster loosened his lap belt as well. At 7:33 am, the cabin crew had begun to prepare for meal service. The plane had climbed to 17,300 feet over Didcot, Oxfordshire. Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the fuselage quickly filled with condensation. The left windscreen, on the captain's side of the cockpit, had suffered a catastrophic failure. Lancaster was jerked out of his seat by the rushing air and forced head first out of the cockpit, his knees snagging onto the flight controls. This left him with his whole upper torso out of the aircraft, and only his legs inside. The door to the flight deck was blown out onto the radio and navigation console, blocking the throttle control which caused the plane to continue gaining speed as they descended, while papers and other de...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=134722