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Mid-air life-saving act by Atherstone nurse has 'done nothing for my fear of flying'

By Nick Hudson

13th Feb 2020 | Local News

Helping hands: Dawn Downes, second from left, with Sam Percival, second from right, at the George Eliot hospital with two passengers from the plane drama either side of themn

An Atherstone theatre nurse relived her own nightmare as she talked of pulling a plane passenger "back from the brink" in a miles-high medical drama above the skies of Europe.

Dawn Downes wrestled with a lifetime fear of flying as she found herself the only clinically-trained option to helping save a man's life as a Jet2 flight from Alicante in Spain headed towards UK airspace.

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