A pilot who was sucked out of a plane's cockpit during a flight and lived to tell the tale has seen his legendary story delighting Twitter users.
Captain Tim Lancaster, a British Airways pilot, was sucked out of the cockpit of a plane flying at 23,00ft from Birmingham to Malaga, Spain.
A re-enactment of Lancaster's fearful flight was dictated by a Twitter user, who explained how colleagues desperately clung onto his legs.
The flight, which took place on June 1990, had hit a disaster after the window of the plane fell off and the pilot was sucked out.
The Twitter user wrote: "In 1990 the window of a plane fell off and one of the pilot got sucked out so they just held onto his legs while the plane landed."
After the window popped off, Lancaster was thrown out of his seat and sucked out of the window while the cockpit door flew open and nearly knocked flight attendant Nigel Ogden to the ground.
Ogden managed to grab Lancaster's legs just in time as he began to disappear out of the window, but Ogden also began to slip out of the window, prompting cabin crew member John Heward to lend a hand.
Heward grabbed Ogden by the belt before another flight attendant strapped himself into the pilot's chair and helped hold down the chain of people.
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Co-pilot Alistair Atchinson took over the controls and began to shout "Mayday" into the radio, LADBible reported.
Ogden said: "His legs were jammed forward, disconnecting the autopilot, and the flight door was resting on the controls, sending the plane hurtling down at nearly 650kmh through some of the most congested skies in the world.
Lancaster made it out of his terrifying ordeal alive, suffering fractures and a bout of frostbite.
Ogden continued: "I thought I was going to lose him, but he ended up bent in a U-shape around the windows. His face was banging against the window with blood coming out of his nose and the side of his head, his arms were flailing and seemed about 6 feet long.
"Most terrifyingly, his eyes were wide open. I'll never forget that sight as long as I live."
The crew and Lancaster had their bizarre story immortalised in documentary feature Air Crash Investigations: Blow Out, which dramatised a recreation of the flight.
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