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[Guest antoinedeladigue]

This is the headline on a front-page story in today's The Times. The story reads: 'A pilot asked nearly 200 weary British tourists to give a show of hands if they wanted to fly home on an aircraft he had personally repaired. The holidaymakers had been stranded for seven hours in Minorca after the Boeing 757's onboard computer repeatedly insisted that it was airborne despite being parked on the sweltering tarmac. Covered in oil after resetting a sensor in the aircraft's nosewheel, the pilot stood on a chair in the terminal buidlign and pleaded with the exhausted tourists to join him.' A few of the passengers refused to fly in the aircraft which landed safely at Leeds-Bradford. A MyTravel spokeswoman said that the problem was 'merely a faulty indicator light'.