The Wikipedia article about this crash outside Stockholm does not really tell the true story. The captain panicked, or rather froze, and the true hero was his colleague that rushed to the cockpit to assist.
Thanks for this article. It has one of the most horrible and hilarious descriptions I’ve ever seen (regarding how jet engines are tested for bird resistance):
“The birds are commercial farm-raised stock, purchased from suppliers. They are slaughtered just before the tests, then wrapped in lightweight Styrofoam sabots, loaded into nitrogen-powered pneumatic cannons, and fired into the engines at about 250 miles an hour. The cannons are known as chicken guns, turkey guns, or rooster boosters. The tests are filmed with high-speed cameras, and can be viewed on the Internet in slow-motion videos, some set dramatically to music.”