Thirty-minute extensions would be possible if the captain reasonably believed the plane would take off within that time.

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The Iron Maiden frontman, 52, who holds a commercial pilot's licence, will captain the Astraeus Airlines plane from Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

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In general, when a stick shaker activates, pilots are taught to apply full power and maintain the plane's altitude or lower the nose, a captain for a major airline told CNN.

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"I'm really proud to be captain of a bunch of lads who have jumped on a plane to come here and played with smiles on their faces, " said Pietersen.

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As the captain announced our approach, most of the Japanese on the plane set aside the guidebooks they had been studying and gazed out the windows, anxious to view the famous skyline.

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The captain then told him to leave the area, and ordered him off the plane before it left the gate.

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Miraculously the captain was able to perform an emergency landing in the Azores by gliding the powerless plane for almost 18 minutes.

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When Jeffrey Skiles, the co-pilot of the plane that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in January 2009, explained how he and his captain decided that an airport landing was impossible, he described the same "gaze heuristic": The angle of the plane's descending glide made the airport appear to rise in their windscreen view clearly signaling that a landing there was doomed.

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