Florida Plane Passenger Without Flying Experience Makes Emergency Landing at Florida Airport
One Florida plane passenger has called Florida's Treasure Coast airport saying that the plane's pilot "has gone incoherent," adding that he does not know how to fly the plane.
NPR reported the recordings of the air traffic control call of the man who made an emergency landing with the help of multiple air traffic controllers around West Palm Beach, Florida.
The Florida plane passenger has not been publicly identified. He said several times in the recordings of the call that he does not know how to operate the Cessna Caravan aircraft.
However, his conversations with controllers suggest that he had some familiarity with technical aviation terms.
Robert Morgan, the Palm Beach International air traffic controller, said that luckily the passenger who made an emergency landing has been around "aviation a little bit."
Morgan clarified that the passenger was not a pilot and did not really have any flying experience.
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The air traffic controller asked the passenger his position, wherein he responded that he does not have any idea and that he could only see the Florida coast ahead of him.
BBC News reported that the air traffic controller told the passenger to maintain wings level and to follow the coast, either north or southbound.
At one point, the passenger said that he cannot get his navigation screen to turn on, adding that he has no idea how to stop the plane.
Morgan then used a map of the aircraft's cockpit to give instructions to the passenger who flew the plane.
The longtime flight instructor said that he knew the plane was flying like any other plane and that he just knew he had to keep the flier calm, point to the runway, and tell him how to reduce the power so he could land.
Morgan and the passenger who flew the plane met on the runway and hugged. They also took a picture of them together.
However, Morgan never heard the man's name in his excitement.
The air traffic controller said that the flier told him that he just wanted to get home to his pregnant wife and it "felt even better."
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The Federal Aviation Administration noted that only three people were on board, with a pilot and two passengers, according to The New York Times report.
The pilot said that he was not feeling well about an hour into the flight. He then slumped against the controls, making the plane go into a nosedive and a sharp turn.
The owner of the Cessna 208 plane was reported to be a limited liability corporation registered in Delaware based on FAA's records.
Meanwhile, the corporation that owned the Cessna 208 plane could not be reached for comment.
One patient was transported to an area hospital after the emergency landing, according to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue.
The FAA said that the passengers were not injured in light of the incident.
Flight tracker FlightAware noted that the plane has taken off around an hour earlier from Marsh Harbor in the Bahamas.
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Written by: Mary Webber
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