[IonImplantGuru]

Ping to Aeronaut's ping list!
Our errant co-pilot failed to remember the below poem, by a fellow Canuck:

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

[george76]

An airline pilot who forced a UK-bound jet to divert after suffering an apparent nervous breakdown is being comforted by his wife in a psychiatric ward in Ireland.

Air Canada is investigating the disturbance which forced the captain to land the Boeing 767 aircraft, en route from Toronto to London, at Shannon Airport.

The co-pilot, who was met by medical personnel, remains in psychiatric care after claims he had to be restrained on board by fellow crew members. The airline said a second pilot has accompanied the man’s wife to be by his side in a hospital in Ennis, Co Clare.

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/jet+diverted+as+pilot+has+breakdown/1444047