He then boarded the night flight and settled into his middle seat in a bank of three.

'The middle seat, when you're 6ft 4in, is bad enough, and I just lost all feeling.'

Once there, he suffered a second, massive, stroke, which left him unable to tell anyone or even move for the entire flight.

He said: 'I'm not sure exactly when it happened but it was pretty soon after I sat down. My arm was twitching, so I sat on it, and then it just went numb.'

With the lights dimmed, Mr Dixon went unnoticed, even after the plane landed at Gatwick and passengers disembarked. The man sitting next to Mr Dixon climbed over him to get out.

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