Pilot Dies, Passenger Lands King Air Turbo Prop

https://youtu.be/aqPvVxxIDr0 ^ | April 15, 2020 | FS MaNia

[PROCON]

On Easter Sunday, April 12th, 2009, Doug White and his family chartered a Beech King Air B200 N559DW for a flight from Marco Island, Florida bound for Louisiana with 5 souls on board. Soon after takeoff, the pilot, 67 year old retired Air Force Colonel Joe Cabuk loses consciousness. creating an emergency situation that required extraordinary measures by the planes passengers and Air Traffic Controllers. This video is a recreation of that flight and is intended to honor and pay tribute to the pilots and air traffic controllers.

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The Hero passenger who lands the King Air Turbo Prop and saves his family had earned a Private Pilot's License 18 years prior to this incident. He quit flying shortly after with only 80 hours total time logged.

[CaptainK]

That was AMAZING!!!!!

[Inyo-Mono]

Bookmarked.

[Right Wing Assault]

Well. Just they just landed.

That put a "little" action in my dull day watching it rain here.

Now I've got to convince my brain to calm down and get ready for bed in an hour.

Thanks for the smooth landing!!

[alfa6]

Thanks

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Larry Lucido]

Airplane? Can you describe it?

It’s like a big Tylenol, with wings!

[eyeamok]

tango hotel alpha tango - whiskey alpha sierra - papa romeo echo tango tango yankee - delta alpha mike november - golf oscar oscar delta!!

[Cold War Veteran - Submarines]

That was.a great video

[polymuser]

Good end to the the day. Thanks.

[JubJub]

Bookmark

[PROCON]

India-Alpha Golf Romeo Echo Echo

[Trillian]

ping

[Paal Gulli]

A complex twin with retractable landing gear and high T-tail? That is no mean feat. Buy that man a Daniel Webster seegar!

[EasternRight]

Wow, what an honor to all involved.

[cherry]

bttt

[SuperLuminal]

That is one fine airplane... Thankfully this story had a happy ending for the family passengers...

[PROCON]

It's an amazing story, one guy with little flying experience, and none in this airplane, but completely focused because he had his whole family in the airplane, his whole reason for living, and he did the impossible and made it look easy.

Just Wow!

[dayglored]

> Airplane? Can you describe it? It’s like a big Tylenol, with wings!

But that’s not important now....

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

L8R

[Verbosus]

That was really interesting.
Thanks!

[okkev68]

I play a flight simulator game. Think I would survive? :)

I also slept at a Holiday Inn once.