I have no idea how to fly the plane!
The story we are telling you today is unbelievable, featuring a pilot, a passenger and a charter. We are at the [...]
The story we tell you today has of the incredible, features a pilot, a passenger and a charter.
In this article:
We are at the Bahamas, a small private plane (a Cessnna 208) is carrying a passenger a short way to Florida, Only the pilot and passenger on board. All of a sudden the pilot has a illness and remains unconscious, thus unable to fly the aircraft.
At that point the passenger call the control tower by launching the alarm.
From the audio it sounds like the passenger had a lot of cold blood And did not lose heart, albeit visibly concerned:
"There is a very serious situation here ... the pilot has lost consciousness ... I don't know how to fly the plane!"
The air traffic controller asked where the would find the plane, the answer:
"I have no idea. I can see the Florida coast in front of me. I have no idea."
Fortunately, the plane was not at an excessive altitude and was flying over theocean, so a JetBlue pilot from the command tower guided the passenger through the ditching phases while alerting rescue.
"The level of difficulty this person faced in terms of zero flight time to fly and land a single-engine turbine-powered aircraft is absolutely incredible.
He was very lucky, it was a nice day and so the view was clear in front of him, he could see where he was going clearly."
JetBlue Pilot
Fortunately, everything went well; the passenger was able to land in the water and suffered no damage or injury, the pilot was transported to the hospital And he recovered.
A few simple instructions enabled the passenger to save his own life and that of the pilot, very good of the controller who gave instructions, this the exchange of information between the two:
Controller: "Keep the wing level stable and follow the coast north or south, we are trying to locate you."
Passenger: "Were you able to locate me? I can't even turn on the navigation screen, all the information is there, do you have any idea how to succeed?"
Finally landing in the water and both of them safe. A crazy story that deserved to be told. What about you, would you be able to fly a plane? You could test yourself with one of the flight simulators present in Italy.
