Posted on 05/11/2022 8:27:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK........................
A passenger with no flying experience safely landed a light aircraft at an airport in Florida after his pilot fell unconscious, in what has been described as “nothing short of a miracle.”
Remarkable audio from the cockpit showed the man telling air traffic control: “I’ve got a serious situation here. My pilot has gone incoherent and I have no idea how to fly the airplane.”
The man, who has not been identified, was a passenger on a Cessna 208 Caravan and was flying home to Florida from the Bahamas to see his pregnant wife. However, just off the coastline, about 70 miles north of their destination, the pilot suffered what is thought to be a medical emergency.
Facing a potential catastrophe, the passenger made contact with air traffic control, who asked for his position. “I have no idea,” he said. “I can see the coast of Florida in front of me.”
“Try to hold the wings level and see if you can start descending for me, the air traffic controller has heard telling the man. “Push forward on the controls and descend at a very slow rate.
“Try to follow the coast either north or southbound. We’re trying to locate you.”
Continue reading (there’s much more)…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10804051/Passenger-small-plane-guided-air-traffic-control-land-safely-pilot-falls-unconscious.html
This clip has the air traffic audio exchange
AVIATION PING!.......................
AVIATION PING!.......................
Fur later.
A happy ending, amazing story…..( hope the pilot is OK)
I have never flown, but I would imagine that if you have clear weather and visibility, the hardest part about landing a plane is knowing the best landing speed to use with flaps on. Too slow and you stall, too fast and you use up your runway trying to stop.
All flying planes land. It’s just a question of equipment re-use.
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air traffic control, who asked for his position.
“I’m seated and holding a microphone and a rosary.”
Lining up the plane to the runway is hard the first time you ever land a plane.
Also he was lucky crosswinds were light.
Great job by a novice.
Vaxx?
Did he “land it” or did he “LAND IT”? Big difference! LOL
Glad all is good....
****Vaxx?*****
According to Fauci, they landed safely because they were masked and vaxxed....
I give it a week before someone makes a flight simulator video that recreates this event with the audio synced.
landing a plane is easy. walking away from it is the hard part.
I’ve never flown either. The thing that would probably kill me in a situation like this are the instruments, rudders, flaps, etc.
Having to successfully accomplish 3 or 4 things all at once would freak me out.
And even if I did everything perfectly, I would probably run into a tree on the ground.
Note to self - never fly in a plane without a copilot.
He’s a natural! The Navy or Air Force ought to recruit him.
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