Gary Numan
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I was an air display pilot for 15 years, and watched most of my friends die in crashes. When the children came along, I got out of it.
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A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Always flying: we’ve had flights where the engine’s been on fire; where we’ve nose-dived.
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Ray Mears
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In a helicopter crash in Wyoming in 2005. My cameraman broke his back and both legs; the pilot broke his back. The helicopter didn’t catch fire, so I’m still here today.
Liev Schreiber
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A car accident in British Columbia 35-40 years ago. I was driving too quickly on a dirt road and lost control of the car, and it went off a cliff and got stuck in some treetops. We were not at all hurt; we actually just climbed out.
In a different sense, I’ve helped to try to resuscitate a dead man.
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When a relationship I’ve been invested in stops working. And yet, here I am, happy as you like.
Sleep apnoea and tinnitus.
I’ve apologised to my son, Thomas, for being absent for quite a lot of his first few years, but, as a working mother and breadwinner, I kind of had to be. I like to think I’ve made up for it.
I am a bit of a procrastinator.
Can’t remember.
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