Horrifying Real-Life Footage Reveals What Happened To Plane After Pilot Was Sucked Out Of Cockpit Mid-Flight

The real-life footage of the plane, which lost its pilot through the cockpit window mid-flight, is just as unsettling as you’d expect.

On 10 June 1990, British Airways Flight 5390, a One-Eleven 528 FL aircraft, was flying from Birmingham Airport in the UK to Málaga Airport in Spain when the unthinkable happened.

While flying over Didcot, Oxfordshire, the plane suffered explosive decompression when a poorly installed cockpit windscreen panel detached, causing the captain to be partially pulled out of the aircraft.

Miraculously, no lives were lost. The captain was held against the window frame for 20 minutes, as a flight attendant clung to his legs to prevent him from being fully sucked out.

A simulation showing the event has previously gone viral, illustrating how Captain Tim Lancaster was blown out of the cockpit and highlighting how critical the actions of flight attendant Nigel Ogden were in saving his life.

According to the official report, the terrifying event took place just 13 minutes after takeoff.

Lancaster somehow survived the freak incident YouTube/Retrontario/NBC News

In just 20 minutes, First Officer Alistair Atcheson managed to complete an emergency landing at Southampton Airport.

Lancaster’s body remained pinned against the frame, while additional crew members came to help hold his lower half inside.

His head continuously struck the aircraft's roof, enduring wind speeds of up to 300 mph and temperatures far below freezing.

The crew assumed he wouldn’t survive, but against all odds, he did.

Old NBC News footage shared by YouTube channel Retrontraio showed a haunting detail.

Above the cockpit window that had blown off, blood from the pilot was visible on the exterior of the plane.

The repeated blows to his head caused significant injuries. The pilot was reported to have suffered severe bruising, frostbite, a dislocated shoulder, and fractures to his arm and wrist, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

Flight attendant Ogden described the terrifying experience to the publication, saying: "I whipped round and saw the front windscreen had disappeared and Tim, the pilot, was going out through it - he had been sucked out of his seatbelt, and all I could see were his legs."

"I jumped over the control column and grabbed him round his waist to avoid him going out completely."

He further added: "His shirt had been pulled off his back and his body was bent upwards, doubled over round the top of the aircraft."

You can see the blood above and to the right of the window YouTube/Retrontario/NBC News

"His legs were jammed forward, disconnecting the autopilot, and the flight door was resting on the controls, sending the plane hurtling down at nearly 650 kmh through some of the most congested skies in the world," Ogden explained.

Lancaster later admitted that he was aware of being outside the plane but wasn’t greatly troubled by it.

"What I remember most clearly was the fact that I couldn't breathe because I was facing into the airflow," he admitted during the 2005 documentary Mayday.