“OK. He had never flown a Cessna 208 before but it wasn’t like he was some bloke who had never flown an airplane before.”
Morgan is the air traffic controller who walked the never-flew-before-pilot through the steps to land the aircraft.
Maybe you should have read the whole story.
there was this 15 year old kid who liked to steal airplanes and managed to land at least some of them.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1884273/
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/barefoot-bandit-his-life-and-crimes/10/