Piotr Skut

Piotr Skut (Piotr Szut) is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. An eyepatch-wearing Estonian pilot, he appears in two albums: The Red Sea Sharks and Flight 714.
Skut's name is not a genuine Estonian patronym, but rather an excuse for a gag, as when they first meet Captain Haddock believes he is telling him to "scoot" rather than introducing himself. (In the original French, the Captain mistakes the name "Szut" for "zut", the French exclamation of frustration.)
In The Red Sea Sharks, Skut flies one of the DeHavilland Mosquitos used by Sheik Bab El Ehr to seize power in Khemed, and his squad strafes the boat Tintin and Haddock are crossing the Red Sea on. Tintin shoots down his plane with an assault rifle in self-defence, but later rescues him from the waters and Skut ends up marooned with the pair on a hastily-assembled life raft. Grateful for this treatment, Skut becomes a faithful friend and later refuses to betray Tintin and Haddock, instead sharing the rest of the adventure with them. He repairs the sabotaged radio of the S.S. Ramona and calls for help, which arrives just in time to save the boat from a submarine's attacks.
In Flight 714, Skut has become a private jet pilot for millionaire Laszlo Carreidas and gets hijacked by his own crew.

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