A passenger successfully landed a small plane on Friday after the pilot had a medical emergency, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air 90 was traveling from ...
The Beech C90-B King Air — a twin-engine turboprop — was headed from Henderson, Nevada, to Monterey when the unidentified pilot suddenly lost consciousness, leaving the lone passenger — a non-pilot — ...
One of the first orders of business, once the plane was successfully turned around — was getting the landing gear down. The passenger flying the plane understandably didn’t know how to do that.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations aircrew responded to the in-flight emergency on Friday by providing instructions to enable the passenger to safely land the plane.
Picture it: you’re happily sitting aboard a plane and the pilot falls over unconscious. It’s the stuff of nightmares and Hollywood movies, but for one Californian, it was all too real.
After the pilot fell unconscious mid-air from a medical emergency, a passenger took control and landed the plane with help from air traffic control. Yahoo Tech ...