Larger than life and luckier than a lottery winner, round-the-world pilot Maurice Kirk showed once again he’s got more lives than a cat’s home after he was forced to ditch his 65-year-old Piper Cub in the Caribbean last month.The colourful ‘Flying Vet’ suffered an engine out and was forced to ditch 80 miles from land – and thanked his foresight to buy and register an emergency beacon for this over-water leg of this global odyssey. ... more