How a British Airways Pilot Survived Hanging Outside a Flying Plane for 20 Minutes – Likya
In the early summer of 1990, a seemingly ordinary British Airways flight turned into one of the most extraordinary survival stories in commercial aviation history.
On the morning of June 10, 1990, British Airways Flight 5390—a BAC One‑Eleven jetliner—departed Birmingham Airport bound for Málaga Airport in Spain with 81 passengers and six crew members aboard.
It was a routine international flight that should have been unremarkable, yet within minutes…