A pilot who suddenly went blind while flying his plane at 5,500ft (1,676m) was guided in to land by an RAF plane.
A plane was scrambled from the RAF base at Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire to help stricken pilot Jim O'Neill, 65.
He was flying a two-seater Cessna aircraft from Prestwick airport in Scotland to Colchester, Essex, when he suffered a stroke and lost his sight.
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He could see just a little. He was very cool, did not panic, sent a mayday, got help and came down safely.
Thanks to a good training, a calm temperament and a very competent helper. Do not thank god, as I am sure many are. I can see no evidence that god did much. Now if he went into a panic, curled up in fetal ball, dropped all controls and the plane landed safely, time to thank god.
How do you know god did not poke him in the eyes to begin with? Huh?
"How do you know god did not poke him in the eyes to begin with? Huh?"
So the RAF thwarted God's will by saving the pilot? Limey heathens spoil everything....
It's Yorkshire. We do stuff like that all the time, often before breakfast. Why do you think Darwin came here to post the first copies of the Origin to the World? We invented the English language, Captain Cook, Easter, silly priests' haircuts, the Brontes and Dracula. Some cake as well, whose name I forget. But we don't like the media telling the world.
Constantine was aclaimed Emperor of Rome here too, and went on to decriminalize Christianity and look at the fucking trouble that caused. So on behalf of Yorkshire I apologize for that. But by and large, we rock. There is no better place to be strucken blind while flying a plane.