After an in-flight emergency, an inexperienced passenger lands a plane

A passenger without any experience in piloting aircraft, he replaced the pilot of a small plane who suffered a health problem and, with the help of the control tower of the Palm Beach International Airport (Florida), managed to land without problems.

The event, which occurred this Tuesday and worthy of a movie script, occupies a prominent place in the news in South Florida.

According to the WPTV television channel, the plane landed on Tuesday, May 10, at noon at the Palm Beach airport, in southeastern Florida, thanks to the instructions of an air traffic controller who is also a flight instructor.

In the single-engine Cessna 208 plane, only the pilot and the passenger who ended up in command of the aircraft were traveling.

In the audio broadcast by the media, the passenger, whose identity has not been released, can be heard telling the control tower that "something serious is happening".

"The pilot is incoherent, I have no idea how to fly a plane"said the passenger.

From the control tower they responded by asking him where the plane was at that moment, to which the passenger replied: "I have no idea, but I see the coast of Florida in front of me".

After that, the controller gave him instructions on what to do, with special pay attention to "keep wings level" Y "descend at a very slow speed".

After landing, it was reported that the pilot of the plane was hospitalized for undisclosed reasons and the controller and his student, the forced pilot, they were congratulated by "nice job" accomplished.

Aviation authorities are investigating the incident.

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