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Captain
Marian Kozubski
Captain Marian Kozubski,
late of the Polish Air Force flew with
Aden Airways circa 1966/7.
Writer and TV presenter, Clive James,
described the stereotype airline
buccaneer of the time, which seems to allude to Kozubski,
although it strangely omits his moustache and beard.
"I
had made the mistake of looking out of the window at the
moment when the pilot arrived by Jeep.
He was wearing an
eye-patch, walked with a stiff leg and saluted the
aircraft with what appeared to be an aluminium hand.
Around his neck the silver brassard of what appeared to
be a Polish Award for bravery gleamed in the weak
sunlight"
Whatever the truth of this, the real Kozubski
was the stuff of anecdotes if not legends. When in
dispute with an airport official he was reported as
having arranged for that person's car to be towed by
tractor to a remote rural location.
He drove his own
Jaguar in the Monte Carlo Rally and survived one
spectacular crash in it while driving to pilot a flight
out of Heathrow.
He died in 1979.
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