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Iron Maiden's singer rescues British tourists

Iron Maiden rock singer Bruce Dickinson turned superhero on Saturday to rescue British holidaymakers left in Egypt (1)_____ Britain's third largest tour operator collapsed.

The heavy metal hero, who is also a Boeing 757 pilot, (2)_____ a specially-chartered Monarch Airlines flight from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to London Gatwick Airport.

XL Leisure Group, the tour operator, (3)_____ on Saturday, leaving some 85,000 British holidaymakers stranded abroad. (4)_____ almost 12,000 people have been brought back as part of an airlift mission.

"I (5)_____ my job. I was called out like a lot of other pilots to help and I was honestly happy (6)_____ that," Dickinson said.

Dickinson, 50, said next he was off to the Greek island of Kos to rescue (7)_____ stranded holidaymakers.

The Iron Maiden frontman (8)_____ a captain with Astraeus, a British charter airline, for nine years. He qualified as a pilot in the 1990s.

(1)_____
1. whenever
2. then
3. after
4. because of
(2)_____
1. was flown
2. been flying
3. has flown
4. flew
(3)_____
1. came true
2. went bankrupt
3. got lost
4. turned the corner
(4)
1. Since then
2. Later
3. Long ago
4. For weeks
(5)
1. could just do
2. was just doing
3. would just do
4. was just done
(6)
1. that I must do
2. being done
3. to do
4. to be done
(7)
1. any other
2. some more
3. every other
4. no more
(8)
1. is being
2. is
3. was being
4. has been

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