Iron Maiden rocker helps rescue holiday makers
Holiday-makers left stranded by the collapse of airline XL must have thought they had gone mad when they heard Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson was coming to rescue them.
Dickinson, was announced as one of the pilots who would fly specially chartered flights to take some of the 85,000 tourists home.
But it is not as odd as it first sounds, when not on tour the 50-year-old now works as a captain with Astraeus flying commercial jets, okay it does still sound odd.
First he flew 221 holidaymakers who had been stranded in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, back to the UK then collected another group stuck on the Greek island of Kos.
He did not give them a rendition of "The Number of the Beast" over the tannoy - "I was just doing my job," he said.
"I was called out like a lot of other pilots to help and I was obviously happy to do that."
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As a huge iron maiden fan it would make my day to have Bruce as a pilot.
hi everybary