Reenactment

Drop or not drop. Bet that was never covered in simulator training.
 
Holy crap. What a ride for the captain. Incredible he wasn't more severely injured.
 
And the pilot continues to fly,would be time for retirement for me.
 
The write-up of this incident on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390) doesn't add much detail, but does add this: Less than five months after the accident Lancaster was working again. He later retired from British Airways when he reached the company's mandatory retirement age of 55 at the time. In 2005 Lancaster was reported as flying for easyJet.
 
I'll bet Lancaster is happy that Atchison refused to dump the body.
 
Somebody (ACI?) did an actual re-enactment (not a kid school project in FSX with captions over). It was over-dramatized, of course, but at least they showed the happenings in the cockpit which might not be easy to imagine from just the text.
Capt. Lancaster sure is lucky that the co-pilot decided they should hold onto him. Wow.
And the investigators concluded that the cause of the windshield blow-out was a dumbazz mechanic who used the wrong bolts to install the windshield. "Hey boss, we're out of the big bolts" - "Use smaller ones, we have plenty of those, they'll fit, put some RTV on them so that they don't rattle around". *sigh*
 
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