RAF helicoptor pilot shot between the eyes by Taliban flies 20 to safety

Published: 7:36AM GMT 05 March 2010

The Chinook flown by Flight Lieutenant Ian Fortune, 28, was brought in to collect up casualties during a firefight in in between American and Afghanistan forces and heavily armed rebels nearby Garmsir in Helmand Province, pronounced a inform in The Sun.

The commander was told it was as well dangerous to land and circled the alighting area. The Chinook came underneath glow after in the future alighting - that one after another as casualties were installed on house - and Flt Lt Fortune was strike by a Taliban bullet as he took off.

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The shot strike the rail on the front of his steel sheet that is routinely used to insert night prophesy goggles.

It penetrated his steel sheet attack him in in between the eyes and causing serious bleeding.

Further bullets strike the helicopter"s"s controls deleterious the stabilisation system.

Despite this Flt Lt Fortune was means to fly for eight mins prior to alighting at Camp Bastion.

This was the initial time a commander has been shot whilst in the air during the Afghanistan war.

Mike Brewer, a radio presenter who was on house filming a documentary at the time, said: "The bravery and intrepidity of the commander was over belief."