Height of Lunacy ; Hero British Captain Saves Packed Holiday Jet As German Pilot Roars Within 300ft to Take a Photo

Daily MailJuly 14, 2005

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THE captain of a British holiday jet averted disaster by seconds when the pilot of a German airliner roared within 600ft of his aircraft at 500mph to take a picture of a friend.

The German had apparently planned a mid-Atlantic rendezvous with a plane from his own airline to get a snap of a colleague in its cockpit who was on his last operational flight.

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Height of Lunacy ; Hero British Captain Saves Packed Holiday Jet As German Pilot Roars Within 300ft to Take a Photo

But that aircraft was 100 miles ahead. Instead, the German seemingly mistook the Thomas Cook Airbus, which was at 33,000ft with 194 people aboard, for ...

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