Iceland - nothing by halves there! A bank crashes and we all go down screaming. As for their volcanoes! Ash eight miles high and it's all coming down somewhere. At least Eric Moody got the better of it back in 1982 when his Boeing 747 lost power to all four engines. Err, ejector seat anyone?
Good old Captain Moody kept his cool, describing it as a "small problem." "I trust you are not in too much distress," he said. No, they were all bent over in the brace position, moaning softly and kissing good bye to their beloved backsides. He got the engines up again after fifteen minutes of silent gliding. Wasn't that quiet in the cabin.
Love the cool in a crisis thing. Private Alex Kennedy is the Ice Man. He dived into the line of fire to save an officer who had been hit three times. Alex, 18, dragged the injured man away, catching a bullet on the butt of his gun for his trouble. He says he only did what any soldier would have, "the real heroes are the ones who don't come back," he said. Is he special? What do you think?
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