All on board were extremely lucky to land safely.
CNN. “He said, ‘I don’t know how to fly. I don’t know how to stop this thing if I do get on the runway.’”208 Caravan, a model Morgan had never flown before. But he pulled up a picture of the instrument panel’s layout and guided the passenger to safety. In typical scenarios, learning how to land a plane can take about 20 hours of flight instruction. This passenger picked up that lesson in mere minutes.
Morgan gave the landing a 10 out of 10. “I was really happy that it worked out and that nobody got hurt,” he told CNN. He was even able to meet with the passenger once the ordeal had come to an end.Other pilots were also taken aback by the passenger’s ability to remain cool under such pressure.
Dalmolin emphasized that the Cessna 208 is a pretty sophisticated plane, and noted how air traffic control was able to help the passenger recover from the plane’s dive and stabilize the aircraft, along with landing it safely. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident, and the original pilot’s condition has not yet been released publicly.
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