Incredible moment passenger with ‘no idea how to fly’ lands plane after pilot falls unconscious mid-air
The remarkably calm passenger spent around four minutes working out what to do and asks “have you guts located me yet”.
“I can't even get my nav screen to turn on. It has all the information on it. You guys have any ideas on that?”Air traffic control at Palm Beach airport then guide him how to land the plane. "You just witnessed a couple of passengers land that plane," the tower operator can be heard telling an American Airlines pilot waiting to take off for Charlotte, North Carolina.According to ABC News, the controller involved is a certified flight instructor with experience working with Cessna aircrafts.Justin Dalmolin, a Jet Blue pilot, was told to wait while the unnamed man landed, and said he was astonished he managed to do so.
“The level of difficulty that this person had to deal with in terms of having zero flight time to fly and land a single engine turbine aircraft is absolutely incredible,” he John Nance, an aviation expert, said landing of such a complex plane by someone without any flying history was a remarkable feat.
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