![]() I have the coast in front of me, but I have no idea,” the passenger replies. ![]() The controller asks: “Caravan 33 Lima Delta, roger, what’s your position?” “He’s incoherent, no idea how to fly the airplane but I’m maintaining 9,100.” “I’ve got a serious situation here about my pilot,” the novice pilot is heard saying about 70 miles north of his final destination, according to audio posted by. “I knew the plane was flying like any other plane, I just knew I had to keep him calm, point him to the runway and tell him how to reduce the power so he could descend to land,” he said.Īlthough Morgan had never flown the Grand Caravan, he used an image of the cockpit to understand the layout the passenger had in front of him. Florida air-traffic controller Robert Morgan opened up about helping a passenger land the plane at Palm Beach International Airport on Tuesday WPBF Morgan said he knew he had to keep the passenger calm as he coached him on landing the plane (above) WPBF ![]() In most cases, talking an inexperienced person down in a plane is a daunting task – which in this case was even trickier because the Cessna Grand Caravan involved is a 38-foot-long utility single-engine turboprop that typically seats 14, a big and heavy aircraft.īut Morgan, a controller with 20 years of experience in the tower, has about 1,200 hours in the cockpit under his belt and is also a flight instructor, according to WPBF. “There’s a passenger flying a plane that’s not a pilot and the pilot is incapacitated so they said you need to help them try and land the plane!” the co-worker yelled to him, according to the outlet. Longtime aviator and flight instructor Robert Morgan was outside the tower at Palm Beach International Airport reading a book while on break Tuesday afternoon when a colleague flagged him down about the emergency, WPBF reported. The air-traffic controller who helped a passenger land a plane in Florida when the pilot became incapacitated said he knew he had to keep the novice “calm” as he coached him through the heart-racing ordeal. Over one-third of all flights at LaGuardia Airport canceled Thursdayīiden admin sending ‘adult men’ on migrant kid flights, Astorino claims Travelers stranded at LaGuardia Airport wait in hourslong lines to rebook flightsįlight cancellations continue to plague LaGuardia, Newark airports
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