A GROUP of schoolchildren thought a flight to Scotland to appear on a TV show couldn’t get any more exciting – until their teacher saw the pilot. 

Teacher Sue Wilsher, who was with the youngsters from Castle Park Primary School in Caldicot, immediately recognised him as former pupil Adam Llewellyn. 

They were on an EasyJet flight from Bristol to Glasgow where the children, Lucie Williams, Gemma Read, Violet Stones, Jana Prelevic and Jay Stephenson, were to film an episode of the CBBC series Top Class. 

Mrs Wilsher said: “I realised it was Adam as I walked down the aisle towards the cockpit and he was standing outside with two colleagues.     

“Adam and I were both surprised but had a hug and he asked what we were doing in Glasgow.   

“He was wonderful with the children and gave them lots of time in the cockpit, answering their questions and he explained that he had been to their school when it was St Mary’s – what a role-model.”