Hero pilot’s last wish to revisit Mallow fulfilled by daughter

TEARS filled the eyes of a Mexican teacher as she fulfilled the wish of her late father, Captain Ruben Ocaña.

He piloted a Gulfstream 11 executive jet aircraft to an emergency landing at Mallow Racecourse on April 18, 1983.

Captain Ocaña had hoped to revisit Mallow, but he sadly died early last year, aged 81, without realising his dream.