"You potentially have a bomb above your head and then you have sea landings and landings at night with power cables so it's not a straightforward thing, " he said.

BBC: Gordon Bennett balloon race competitors lift off

Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by a head injury she received from a suicide bomb blast and not by gunfire that preceded the explosion, investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard said Friday.

NPR: Scotland Yard: Force of Blast Killed Bhutto

The court heard Capt Head was a "stubborn Yorkshire woman" who had wanted to defuse the second bomb despite the dangers.

BBC: Capt Lisa Jade Head