Is the "blind driver" story true?

That one is quite believable because the pilot isn't doing anything stupid.

You have to wonder just how in touch with reality the passengers who got off the plane were, thinking that an airline would allow a partially sighted pilot to be in command of a flight.

There are so many wonderful stories from the world of aviation that there really is no need to delve into the realms of fiction.

Many years ago I read a confession (it was a regular feature in Pilot magazine) from a pilot who was on a delivery/repositioning flight for an executive aircraft, and who - contrary to all regulations - set the aircraft on autopilot over a large, empty, area of the American mid-West, and went back into the passenger cabin to read his book in comfort. Unfortunately, during some very mild turbulence, the connecting door swung closed and latched. I honestly cannot remember the exact details but the pilot spent the next two hours frantically taking the door off its hinges using something like a nail-file, and then, once he had gained access to the cockpit had to screw it back (I seem to remember that he had a tool kit in the cockpit so it was much easier task).

And a story about a somewhat untrained ground crew dealing with what they thought was a fire when the brakes on one wheel of a large transport jet were smoking after touchdown had me literally rolling about with laughter. (Throwing a bucket of water on a smoking hot brake disk is inadvisable but the image of this happening while the pilot was desperately trying to tell them to leave it all alone was hysterical.)