‘I have no idea how to fly’: How air traffic controllers helped a passenger land a plane
- A small plane was traveling from the Bahamas to Florida when its pilot became incapacitated, leaving two passengers with no flight experience to figure out what to do next.
- Air traffic controllers located the plane and spent more than an hour guiding the passengers to an airport, where they landed safely.
JUPITER, Fla. – “I just pulled off the impossible.”
That was all Robert Morgan, 47, could manage to write in a text to his wife, Michelle, once he and other South Florida air traffic controllers helped guide a plane to a safe landing this month after its pilot became incapacitated, leaving two men with no flight experience to figure out what to do next.