Passenger With No Flying Experience Lands Plane At Florida Airport After Pilot Falls Ill | WATCH

When the ATF asked him his position, he said, "I don't know anything." He said that he could only see the Florida coast in front of him.

Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft (Source: File photo/AFP)

New Delhi: In a strange incident that happened in America, a passenger with zero flying experience turned into a saviour for his fellow travellers after he landed a plane at the Palm Beach International Airport in Florida successfully. The incident took place in Florida, where a light aircraft called the Cessna 208 Caravan from the Bahamas to Florida was safely landed by a passenger with the help of an air traffic controller, when the pilot suffered a medical emergency on Tuesday. 

"I’ve got a serious situation here. My pilot has gone incoherent, and I have no idea how to fly the airplane." That person was heard saying this on the radio from a height of nine thousand feet as reported by CNN.

When the ATF asked him his position, he said, "I don't know anything." He said that he could only see the Florida coast in front of him.

When he said this, the air traffic controller told him, "Try to hold the wings level and see if you can start descending for me. Push forward on the controls and descend at a very slow rate," the air traffic controller can be heard telling the man."

This is brand new video (courtesy of Jeff Chandler) of a passenger landing a plane today at PBIA.

His pilot had passed out, and the passenger with zero flight experience was forced to land the plane.

Team coverage of this amazing landing is on @WPBF25News at 11. pic.twitter.com/jFLIlTp6Zs

— Ari Hait (@wpbf_ari) May 11, 2022

Palm Beach International Airport air traffic controller Robert Morgan was on a break when a colleague informed him about it.

Robert has been a longtime flight instructor and has 20 years of experience in air traffic control. However, he has no experience in flying this single-engine Cessna 208 aircraft. But by looking at the map of the cockpit of the aircraft, he could give instructions to the plane flier.