“Hero” pilot Peter Burkill spoke for the first time today about the dramatic moment his plane crashed at Heathrow.
Addressing a packed press conference, the captain and his co-pilot John Coward and cabin director Sharon Eaton-Mercer were given a heroes’ welcome.
But after the applause and cheers died down, Mr Burkill, a married father-of-three from Worcester, revealed that it was in fact Mr Coward who was at the helm at the time of the crisis.
