«'I kept screaming at Branson to pull the lever...'». The Independent (på engelsk). 20. september 1998. Besøkt 30. august 2020. «The pilot, who had passed his flying exam just that week, had misinterpreted the weather forecast. This near-death experience, the inspiration behind Oldfield's Five Miles Out, was even more nightmarish for him because he suffers from a combination of claustrophobia, agoraphobia and vertigo.»