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"My career was defined by eight and a half minutes"

British Airways pilot Rick Craft, from Binfield, spent over four decades flying commercial aircraft.

He told ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Berkshire's Sarah Walker about his most memorable moment, when he was forced to save his plane from engine failure en-route to Montreal, Canada.

Rick Craft, former BA pilot:

"This probably was the nemesis of my career, and the thing you practice for all the time.

"As we were coming into Montreal, coming in the opposite direction was a flock of Canada geese, and we took out about sixty of them... this was a once in a lifetime sort of event.

"My career was defined by eight and a half minutes.

"One of the engines wasn't doing too well, it had fifty feet of flame coming out of the back of it."

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