Despite having no flying experience, Darren Harrison climbed over 3 rows of seats into the cockpit, moved the pilot out of his seat and scrambled to put on headphones and make contact with air traffic control — all as the plane was heading down.
heard his pilot say he wasn't feeling well and saw him suddenly slump over the controls of the single-engine planeHarrison was one of two passengers in the Cessna 208 plane flying from the Bahamas to Florida when the pilot became incapacitated Tuesday afternoon.
In audio from a call he made to air traffic control at Fort Pierce tower, he said: “I’ve got a serious situation here. My pilot has gone incoherent. I have no idea how to fly the airplane."At first Harrison didn’t know where the aircraft he was flying was even located.
When the time came for the plane to land at the runway, it briefly disappeared from the radar, Morgan said. In audio from a separate call log from the air traffic control station following the landing, someone is heard saying,"Man, they did a great job."Once on the runway, Harrison didn’t know how to stop the plane so controllers instructed him on how to brake and adjust the levers, the FAA said.
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