'Gun to head': French prison break helicopter pilot describes ordeal

Stéphane Buy was beaten, his family threatened and forced to fly low on fuel The helicopter pilot taken hostage and forced to help heavily armed men spring a notorious French criminal from prison has spoken publicly for the first time about his ordeal. Stéphane Buy told how he was expecting to give a flying lesson to two men; instead, he was beaten, knocked briefly unconscious and ordered to take a group of masked men to break Rédoine Faïd out of jail.