Michael Thexton

He told me that they had to vote on it.

And again, that's extraordinary.

Lots of different stories put out by people who are

I guess, probably trying to avoid liability as to what the policy was, whether there was a policy, whether it was left to the pilot's discretion.

But they had a vote, and he said it was two to one that we should immobilize the plane and leave.

It's the only way of immobilizing the plane.

And they got stick for it.

And I've seen the pilot interviewed, and you could see it.

It was hard.

I mean, that's what he said.

It was hard leaving the plane.

knowing that he was putting his cabin crew in the front line, knowing he was abandoning his passengers.

It saved everybody's lives.

Absolutely it did.

You know, I sort of feel a vote of two to one, probably, possibly the captain was the person who voted to stay.

Because, you know, partly there'd be this sort of nagging feeling, you know, I'll never hear the end of this.

I'll always be the guy who ran away.

And yet it was the right thing to do, which I think therefore makes him the bravest man to have done that, knowing that it would always haunt him.

And so they arrived at the terminal building and there's a busload of economy class passengers trying to persuade the security guard to let them go and join in.

You know, they're saying, well, we want to board.