Twin brothers have retired as airplane pilots, and have landed their last flight 30 seconds apart.
Born 30 minutes apart, Captains Jeremy Hart and Nick Hart marked their 60th birthday on Thursday by landing their aircraft next to each other and walking off their last ever flights at the Heathrow Airport in London.
Jeremy said that retiring along with his brother is a ‘good way to end’ his career. Nick, meanwhile, said: “Like every aeroplane has its last landing, so does a pilot.”
The brothers have clocked 45,000 flight hours combined, spent three-and-a-half years in the skies and whisked more than two millions passengers to their destination.
They are often mistaken for each other by colleagues and crew.
“Jerry had never mentioned to his colleagues at British Airways that he had a twin brother who flew for British Midland, and one day [years ago] a British Airways pilot strode over to me at Heathrow and asked what on Earth I thought I was doing dressing up in a British Midland uniform,” Nick said.
“It took a bit of explaining to convince him that I wasn’t Jeremy.”
Jeremy joined British Airways 30 years ago in 1987, while Nick joined in 2012 after the company he worked for, British Midland, was taken over by BA.
Enjoy your retirement, Hart bros!
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