A passenger with no flying experience safely landed a private plane at a Florida airport with the help of an air traffic controller after the pilot became incapacitated. The condition of the pilot is unknown at this time. CNN's Pete Muntean reports. #CNN #News
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Fabulous instructor! Congratulations to all!
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Any landing you walk away from is a good landing. When it’s a passenger with zero flying experience that lands the plane and walks away, that’s a miracle.
You make it sound like he crashed it.
Not really, it’s not that hard.
@iLikeWaffles … not that hard? If he had even a slight crosswind gust without having the right aileron inputs this could have gone bad real fast.. amazing job for ATC and passenger both.
@Me Off he took a crash course in the pilots seat
@Mr Rodgers Political Playtime yeah and landed the plane just fine. He’s a quite the guy.
Congratulations 🎈🎉 to the fantastic controller and the brave pilot 👩✈️
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They are both hero’s.
They deserve awards for that bravery. Its amazing that guy could land that plane. He could have a few flying schools want to see he wants to learn how to fly,just a bit better than he already can. Great result🛩
Outstanding teamwork on getting everyone back safely. To the passenger who landed great work 👍👍.
@Tom Story I’ve seen it on DW (Deutsche Welle).
@Tom Story I think you got on the wrong bus, Skippy. Yeah, right Church wrong pew
@southpole my entire family is Welsh and English~american. out of about 50 of us, extended, there are maybe two sets of blue eyes and four blondes. Care to comment?
@R L 🤣was thinking the same thing…I play a game called WarThunder..
I have landed thousands of times on the game- I would think I could land it in real life and then crash doing it in real life- That guy was amazing.
Curious on how the actual piolet is doing- I would also liked to have heard from the guy that landed the plane..😠
This makes me teary and makes me believe in the beauty of humanity for some reason. Something out of a movie that actually ends beautifully. Props to ALL of these guys. Just awesome. ♥️ This guy needs to go get his flying license! 👏🏽👏🏽
I’m here teary as well
I’m reading this and trying to imagine myself in that situation and wondering if I could keep it together enough to do what that passenger did. I feel I’d have to or die but I can’t imagine keeping it together enough to do what he did. amazing story. and yeah, I’m crying too
Thanks God for this Special person that calmly followed the directions of another Special instructor and safely landed the plane successfully …..”only in the movies”…BLESSINGS TO BOTH!
Oh my word! That is literally miraculous. Amazing work by both men but without the air traffic controller, people would have died.
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Incredible!!! Way to go Instructor! Your a bonifide hero!
Kudos to the new student pilot. Way to hold it together man. ❤️
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I’m not sure who I admire more, the flight controller or the person who landed the plane.
A passenger who landed the plane could have enough education to adapt to the feel of the physics of the plane’s movement, after turning and moving the steering stick a bit to go with the instructions he should be able to grasp how the basic roll, yaw, and tilt feels like.
I’m also guessing he figured out how to control the power and the brakes in order to reduce speed and slow down while on the runway, otherwise the plane will keep going until it crashes into something.
The instructor having a picture of the cockpit helps too since he could tell the passenger where the lever for the engine power is, and where the brakes are.
Probably helps a bit if the passenger played any flight games of any level since they always have a basic level of physics for the flight model.
Flying a plane is actually not hard, the hard part is knowing each damn button and knowing what it does also when or where to use it
My proposal: both equally. This was teamwork. Weather the passenger nor the ATC guy would have been able to solve the situation alone.
@Xon Deez bs. Sorry to say. You can mess up easily on landing with a bunch of mistakes possible. You can miss the runway, stall the wing by elevator input, … To just take over a level flying plane ix no big deal as long as the pic is alive and able. You can kill you with flap deploy, angle of attack, wrong power input, bad rudder input, loss of orientation, …
Finally….a feel-good story. Kudos to that ATC-instructor & all involved. Hope pilot is okay.
@VA Mountain Man dude, turn your spellcheck on
@James Thedog you definitely disproved my point with that one
@VA Mountain Man You get a pass because you spelled ‘definitely’ the right way 😁👏
I can’t believe how calm the passenger was.
This would have been me: 🥶🤮😱😭🤡🙈💢💥👇
He sounds like he had military experience. He communicated very clearly under pressure-I’ll bet that, at least, he has done before.
Amazing. He saved at least two people’s lives, very possibly more.
@Mina Rosered too funny😆😅😵💫🤯💞
Yeah, I would’ve sh*t a brick lol
Wow! What an incredible experience. Thank heavens everything turned out okay. Hope the pilot was alright. 🛩
Great story about good people
I’m so glad they made it safe
It’s nothing less than a miracle that they were able to get the plane landed
What a great job from the man who helped him do it
First ability of a hero? Staying calm!! Both of these guys are heroes. Praying for the pilot and their family.
As someone who have been in aviation, the landing is so smooth for a non-pilot. Awesome
good thing it wasn’t a jumbo 747
I picked up on that as well. A no bounce greaser. We all know how hard that can be to achieve.
Outstanding that the passenger managed to keep so calm, given the circumstances. Thank goodness he was able to keep a clear head and listen to the instructions ♥️ Such a great story. I really hope the pilot is doing better 🙏 that will be the perfect end to this crazy story.
The 10-4 would indicate they’re current or retired emergency services, great job for no flying experience
@Gam0r Live or a truck driver 😂 that’s where I know it from
@Casey Gapol never knew truck drivers had to learn radio eticacy till now
This man has the most important quality every pilot should have: self control. He stayed calm, used his his common sense and listened to the controller’s advice instead of panicking and letting it go. Kudos, wonderful job!
don’t think they mentioned the pilot’s profession but my first thought is that he acquired those nerves of steel in the US military
Exactly Gilles. A display of self control. And the landing was a pretty good one.
@I Love Aviation – Burger Club – always open. I just retired from a 45 year pilot career, of which 12 as an instructor and I rarely seen a student doing the landing at the first lesson. I’ve offered some of them to try but had to take over before or during the flare out most of the time. I can recall a guy or two who lsnded by themselves, just relying on my talking but they were quite talented and exceptional people.
@Gilles Graton that’s amazing. I suppose when your life depends on it, anything is possible.
These two are absolute legends and saved not just two lives but possibly more if the plane had crashed into a populated area. I hope the FAA recognise the ATC/instructor guy with whatever awards can
How can that passenger be so calm when he’s talking? If that’s me, I’ll be hyperventilating, screaming, crying rn. Good job for all parties involved especially the passenger 👏
I would be praying to St. Michael the Archangel! He has wings and he knows how to use them too! There is a huge statue of St. Michael the Archangel overlooking a city in Ukraine! He seems to be helping the Ukrainian people deal with the Russians! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
@Daren Smith Praying won’t land your plane. Staying calm and focused will.
Now this is someone who understood the assignment. I would have lead the whole plane attendants in the sinners prayer😳 GREAT JOB MR MORGAN AND TO THE STUDENT VOLUNTEER!!
Poor guy, incredible that he was able to land the plane with no previous experience. What a traumatic thing to go through, but he stayed calm and handled it like a pro and kudos to the flight instructor who obviously gave really good instructions and saved the pilot the passenger and the planes life. Yay!