All the above stories include tiny, single-engine Cessnas. First, these are the type of planes that could legally have a ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A passenger landed a small plane flying from the Las Vegas Valley to California, the Federal ...

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 ...