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Which of the questions below is NOT answered by the article?

Ano: 2025
Banca: Fundação Universidade Empresa de Tecnologia e Ciências - FUNDATEC
Prova: FUNDATEC - BRDE - Analista - Área: Economista - 2025

A British Airways Pilot Was Sucked Out of An Airplane


Natalie Musumenci



  1. British Airways Flight 5390 took off on June 10, 1990. But just 13 minutes into the flight
  2. from Birmingham, England, to Malaga, Spain, a windscreen panel* blew out of the aircraft,
  3. ripping the flight's veteran pilot from his seatbelt, sucking him halfway out of the cockpit*
  4. window, and sending the plane into a nosedive. Thanks to the quick thinking of the flight crew
  5. who grabbed the pilot by his legs and held him for 20 minutes as they landed the plane, everyone
  6. — including the captain — survived.
  7. The panel blew as the plane carrying 81 passengers was flying at an altitude of 17,300 feet.
  8. The explosive decompression forced Captain Tim Lancaster out of the cockpit, leaving his upper
  9. body pinned against the exterior of the plane and his legs caught in the controls, causing the
  10. plane to lose altitude. Flight attendant Nigel Ogden quickly jumped into action as Lancaster was
  11. launched out of the cockpit window. "I jumped over the control and grabbed him around his
  12. waist to avoid him going out completely." Ogden said in a 2005 piece published in The Sydney
  13. Morning Herald.
  14. Ogden said he was holding on to Lancaster "for grim death, but I could feel myself being
  15. sucked out." Other flight attendants rushed to help. The pressure made Lancaster weigh "the
  16. equivalent of 500 pounds," according to Ogden, who got frostbite and a dislocated shoulder
  17. during the incident. Co-pilot Alistair Atcheson probably would have been sucked out of the plane
  18. too if he hadn't been still wearing his safety harness from take-off.
  19. The force of the explosion had thrown Lancaster's legs forward and turned off the autopilot.
  20. The plane headed toward the ground through some of the most congested skies in the world at
  21. more than 400 miles per hour. Amid the chaos, Atcheson managed to re-engage the plane's
  22. autopilot and get the aircraft down to an altitude where there would be more oxygen.
  23. The pilot described what it was like hanging out of the airplane. For Lancaster, then
  24. 42 years old, the situation was "completely surreal." Years later, the pilot would share his
  25. experience on a 2005 episode of the documentary series "Mayday." Lancaster said that he was
  26. "aware of being outside of the airplane, but that really didn't bother me a great deal." "What I
  27. remember most clearly was the fact that I couldn't breathe because I was facing into the airflow,"
  28. he said. He remembers trying to position his body so he could breathe better, but he doesn't
  29. remember much else after that.
  30. Lancaster spent the next 20 minutes hanging outside of the plane as crew members
  31. desperately held onto his ankles. Finally, Atcheson safely pulled off an emergency landing at
  32. England's Southampton Airport. Against all odds, the pilot survived the horrifying situation. The
  33. flight's captain only had frostbite from the extreme cold, a fractured elbow, thumb, and wrist, as
  34. well as some bruising and shock.
  35. A UK government investigation into the incident later revealed that the wrong bolts were
  36. used to install the blown-out windshield, which was swapped during routine maintenance
  37. 27 hours before the flight took off. The flight crew who saved Lancaster's life and the lives of
  38. everyone on board were awarded the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, a
  39. civilian honor in the UK. The British Airways Flight 5390 incident remains one of the most
  40. astonishing in the history of aviation. Perhaps even more amazingly, Lancaster was back flying
  41. just months later. He retired in 2008.

(Available at: https://www.businessinsider.com/british-airways-pilot-sucked-out-plane-mid-flight-survived2024-1 – text specially adapted for this test).


*Windscreen panel: it is the glass window at the front of the plane through which the pilots look. *Cockpit: the front part of the plane where the pilot sits. (Available at: www.collinsdictionary.com).

Which of the questions below is NOT answered by the article?

A

Why did the windscreen break?

B

How old was the pilot when the accident happened?

C

Where was the flight headed?

D

What was the plane’s speed when it lost altitude?

E

How long did the UK government investigation last?

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