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Fly Me

After an investigation, a British Airways 757 flight crew has been cleared of wrongdoing after the News of the World published a photograph taken by a reporter through the open cockpit door. It showed a 5-year-old girl sitting on the pilot’s knee and allegedly pushing flight control buttons. “She didn’t do a lot and she didn’t really press any buttons,” said the girl’s father, Keith Pickersgill of Leeds, England. The girl had been invited to the cockpit to help her get over her fear of flying. (AP) ...That accomplished, she now has a mortal fear of tabloid photographers.


Publication Date: 7 September 1997

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