He was sure calm speaking. I don’t believe it.
Believe it. The exact same thing happened to my Dad back in the 50’s. When the passengers figgered out what happened they passed a hat for a collection. He said he picked up about 20 bucks from the hat.
Did you expect Don Knotts? Paul Lynde? Rip Taylor? Nothing he could do but be calm.
Sounds fishy to me too. I have hours in a Cessna 150. He was a little too good with instrument readings, flight controls, etc and he greased the landing.