JetBlue pilot Justin Dalmolin told WPBF, which first reported the story, that he had to wait to land his plane as air traffic controllers guided the Cessna’s passenger into the airport. What the passenger did was no easy feat, Dalmolin told the station.
, told the control tower that he was not sure where he was — only that he could “see the coast of Florida in front of me.”
From a tower in Fort Pierce, about 75 miles north of Boca Raton, the air traffic controller asked the passenger to reiterate his situation. The passenger repeated that the pilot was incoherent: “He is out.” Throughout much of the exchange, however, his voice remained relatively calm, even as he said things like, “I have no idea how to stop the airplane. I don’t know how to do anything.”
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said in a statement to The Washington Post that the plane identified in the recordings, a Cessna 208 registered to an address in Connecticut, landed in Palm Beach County around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday following a “possible pilot medical issue.” Two people were on board, the spokesman said, adding that the agency “will investigate.” The FAA did not identify the pilot or the passenger.The plane had taken off just before 11 a.m.
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