Past Awards
| 1983 | Mr D W Usher | Mr M E Windsor | Air Florida Flight 90 | Rescue helicopter crew | |
| 1984 | Captain D S Cameron | FO C Quimet | Air Canada Flight 797 | Cabin fire | |
| 1985 | Captain J Gibson | FO G Lintner | FE G Laurin | Reeve Aleutian Airways | L188 Electra propeller loss, and flight controls jammed |
| 1986 | Captain H Galal | Mr E Mounib | EgyptAir Flight 648 | Hijack | |
| 1987 | Captain M Takahamo | FO Y Sasaki | FE H Fukuda | JAL 123 | Decompression, total control failure |
| 1989 | Captain R L Schornstheimer | FO M L Tompkins | Aloha Airlines Flight 243 | Explosive decompression | |
| 1990 | Captain A C Haynes | FO W Records | FE D Dvorak, Captain D Fitch | United Airlines Flight 232 | Uncontained engine failure, total hydraulics and control failure |
| 1991 | Captain A Grischenko | Chernobyl disaster | Helicopter pilot who hovered over the reactor to allow cement to be dropped onto it | ||
| 1992 | Captain G Rasmussen | FO U Cedermark | Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 | Dual engine failure after take off | |
| FO A Atchinson | British Airways Flight 5390 | Windscreen failure | |||
| Captain W C Query | FO Q E Haynes | Mid-air collision | |||
| 1993 | Captain C Justiniano | Hijack, two successful forced landings | |||
| 1996 | Captain A Faria e Mello | Paraplegic, wheelchair pilot | |||
| Captain B Dhellemme | FO J Borderie | FE A Bossuat | Air France Flight 8969 | Hijack | |
| 1998 | Captain L Abate | Mr M Mekuria | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 | Hijack, ditching | |
| 1999 | Captain U Khan | FO M F Querishi | Hijack | ||
| 2000 | Captain N Nagashima | FO Ka Koga | All Nippon Airways Flight 61 | Hijack | |
| Captain J Yamauchi | |||||
| Captain T Higuchi | |||||
| Captain H Takagi | |||||
| Captain H Nishikata | |||||
| Captain Y Iwai | Mr D Sugama | ||||
| 2001 | Captain W Hagan | FO R Webb | FO P Watson | British Airways | BA 2069, attempted hijack |
| 2002 | Flight crews of United Airlines 93 and 175 | United Airlines Flight 93 | United Airlines Flight 175 | ||
| Flight crews of American Airlines 11 and 77 | American Airlines Flight 11 | American Airlines Flight 77 | |||
| 2005 | Captain E Gennotte | FO S Michielsen | FE M Rofail | 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident | Loss of all hydraulics and controls |
| Captain I Lyngmo | FO K M Andresen | Kato Air | Lightning strike, elevator control failure | ||
| Captain S M Lian | FO K M Andresen | Mr Odd Eriksen, Mr T Frantzen | Kato Air | Attempted hijack | |
| Captain L Kurka | FO M Turk | Austrian Airlines | Fokker 70 dual engine failure | ||
| 2008 | Captain T Arnold | Nationwide Airlines | Engine separated from aircraft | ||
| 2009 | Captain D McMillan | FO R Haverfield | Eagle Airways Flight 2279 | Attempted hijack | |
| 2010 | Captain J Bartels | FO B Werninghaus | SO P Tabac | Qantas Flight 30 | Oxygen bottle explosion, rapid depressurisation |
| 2011 | Captain R de Crespigny | FO M Hicks | SO M Johnson, Captain H Wubben, Captain D Evans | Qantas Flight 32 | Uncontained engine failure |
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