Engineer passenger fixes plane

Jul 6 2009

An aircraft engineer helped holidaymakers avoid a long delay when he fixed the plane on which he was a passenger.

The man was onboard a flight from Menorca to Glasgow when the captain announced that the Thomas Cook flight TCX964L was delayed because of a technical fault.

He told passengers that an engineer would probably have to be flown out from Manchester to fix the problem, which could take up to eight hours.