– Pilot suffers heart attack – wife lands plane
In the USA, the pilot of a small plane collapsed. His wife took control and landed with the help of air traffic controllers.
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Because the pilot was unable to continue flying due to a heart attack, his wife landed a small plane safely in the USA. The couple was traveling in a twin-engine turboprop plane from Henderson, Nevada, to Monterey, California, when the 78-year-old suffered a medical emergency. Several people reported this US media agreethe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed the incident.
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The woman, who had no flying experience, reportedly took the controls. With the help of air traffic controllers who gave her detailed instructions over the radio, she managed to land the plane in Bakersfield, California. Her husband was taken to a hospital where he died, wrote the Las Vegas Review-Journal, citing the man’s company.
“To my knowledge, this is unprecedented,” Ron Brewster, the director of airports in Kern County, California, told CBS. “I have never seen anything like this in my entire career.” Both the woman and the Beechcraft King Air 90 aircraft survived the landing unscathed.
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