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A Warwickshire war hero left traumatised by a terrifying emergency landing is flying high after hypnosis cured his crippling fear of planes.

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00:00Hi I'm Paul from Runeaton and I'm here to tell you my story about my fear of flying.

00:05I joined the army back in 2002. My first flight was to Canada. We went through some thunderstorms

00:12and that and it was okay. I didn't really enjoy it but it was okay. My real fear of flying started

00:16when we went to India and I was sitting on the aisle seat next to the wing. The loader came up

00:23to the side of us and looked out the window and I said everything okay and he said yeah it's okay.

00:28So anyway they went back to the captain and came over the tannoy saying that we need to do an

00:34emergency landing. I was like oh my god. In the process of that we sort of started off here and

00:39we sort of dived like that spiraled all the way down and all I could see out of the window was

00:45water and I was thinking this is not going to end well. Anyway as we got sort of it seemed about 20

00:51feet off the ground but it was obviously higher than that we sort of levelled off and landed

00:54straight away so we had to do the emergency landing in Bulgaria. It took about probably nine

01:00ten hours to fix the fuel leak and once it was fixed we got back on the plane. I jokingly said

01:06are we going to make it home safely and they said yeah no problems. 20 or 30 seconds into the flight

01:13and basically it just went bang and the whole plane shuddered and then it went bang bang and

01:19the whole plane shuddered again and I looked around at everyone and it was like

01:23the life dropped over them. I held on to the front of the seat that was it I was praying to god I was

01:29thinking oh my god are we going to make it back home but the captain came on over the tannoy and

01:34says ladies and gentlemen we've just had an engine blowback it normally we normally get one a year

01:39but we've just had three nothing to worry about. I was like please god please god get me home get me

01:44home. Anyway ever since that experience I've detested flying. My partner Anna had some friends

01:56who went to see David and obviously for different reasons but they were all successful so Anna

02:03reached out to David he got in contact with me and basically says yep I can help you not a problem

02:11we'll book you in for one session. Obviously I was sceptical about it and you hear different

02:16things but this was sort of a last resort for me. I went over and met him he was really relaxed

02:23and sat down he talked through different coping mechanisms to get on the plane and whatnot

02:29and then he went into the hypnosis side of it. I was really really relaxed after it it was a

02:34really good feeling but afterwards he sort of walked me out to the car and that he says how

02:40how do you feel? I said I feel amazing I really do so I can't recommend David enough it was sort

02:47of a last resort for me but yeah us men don't really talk about things and fears and stuff like that

02:54and and he sort of gets that out of you so 100% recommend it. Basically cured me from my fear of

03:00flying. I got on a flight on the 28th of October to Iceland my partner said it was like a different

03:07person I was actually like a normal a normal passenger. I looked outside of the the plane

03:13which I'd never done before and I went to the toilet twice as well and that seems like the

03:19normal thing but for me that was that just never happened and we're looking to go on other flights

03:25in the future as well.