1, IRON Maiden rock singer Bruce Dickinson turned superhero on Saturday to rescue British holidaymakers left in Egypt ______ Britain's third largest tour operator collapsed.

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

3, XL Leisure Group, the tour operator, ______ 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.

5, “I ______ my job.

6, I was called out like a lot of other pilots to help and I was honestly happy ______ that,” Dickinson said.

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