Stefan Gydegaard Rasmussen (born 23 July 1947) is a former Danish airline pilot who captained the crash-landing SAS flight 751 on 27 December 1991.
[1] He then spent one year at a technical school in Aarhus and worked as a travel guide before entering the Royal Danish Air Force in 1971.
He subsequently became a pilot and officer, having spent the year 1972 to 1973 in the US[1] where he graduated from Williams Air Force Base, Arizona in 1973 (class 74-01).
[1] On 27 December 1991, he was the Captain of Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751, a McDonnell-Douglas MD-81 registered OY-KHO which crash-landed at Gottröra in Sweden.
He was the focus of a 2011 television documentary for National Geographic Channel titled Pilot Betrayed which completely exonerated Rasmussen of any fault in the crash and credited him with the survival of all aboard.