After the story last week about the female passenger being legless on a flight http://www.holidaytruths.co.uk/forum/drunk-woman-demands-cigarettes-parachute-t160355.html we now have an incident where the pilot losses his arm.
A report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said the Flybe captain was manually flying the aircraft at the time but, as he made the final manoeuvre, 'his prosthetic limb became detached from the yoke clamp, depriving him of control of the aircraft'.
http://www.travelmole.com/news_feature.php?c=setreg®ion=2&m_id=s~dvbvv&w_id=10197&news_id=2012789
Luckily the plane landed armlessly and no arm was done to the plane or passengers
And managed to land the plane one handed , sounds a very skilful pilot IMO , there was also a well known RAF ace who was quite good too despite his disabilities
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