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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."