The co-pilot who put the 'taxi' into taxiing
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Therefore imagine the surprise of one of the airline's first officers when he found that his flight home to Esbjerg, Denmark aboard a 737-200 jet was leaving Stansted early and the retractable gangplank had already been removed.
Ignoring all the rules, he ran on to the apron and successfully flagged the plane down. A statement by the airline yesterday argued that the incident on 24 November was "unorthodox" rather than dangerous. But it admitted that the co-pilot had been disciplined.
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