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Passenger with no flying experience lands plane after pilot becomes incapacitated
Florida air traffic control after the pilot of his flight became incapacitated in the cockpit on Tuesday.The unnamed passenger with no flying experience told air traffic control the pilot had “gone incoherent,” adding he had “no idea how to fly the airplane,” CNN originally reported.The passenger was one of two people aboard the single-engine Cessna 208 airplane.Miraculously, with the help of an air traffic controller (who is also a flight instructor), the passenger was able to successfully land the plane at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida.“I have no idea how to fly the airplane.” Pilot of small plane passes out while flying off the coast of Florida. Passenger, who had never piloted a plane before, successfully lands it after air traffic controller Robert Morgan talks him through the procedure.