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Passenger lands King Air
Posted: 14 Apr 2009, 16:33
by Garry Russell
I guess this will be a movie soon.........not that Hollywood hasn't covered this scenario before
The pilot died and the man who had a single engine license landed it with the help of ATC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/techn ... 997925.stm
Garry
Re: Passenger lands King Air
Posted: 14 Apr 2009, 23:16
by Vulcan_to_the_Sky!
Sad in a way as the pilot died,
but full credit to the passenger/emergency pilot for having the nerves to be able to take control and land it.
Re: Passenger lands King Air
Posted: 15 Apr 2009, 01:05
by DaveB
Sad indeed but I can't see any pilot however unqualified just sitting there waiting for the aircraft to make contact with the deck. Self preservation can be a strong motive to 'lift and shift' ;-)
ATB
DaveB :tab:
Re: Passenger lands King Air
Posted: 15 Apr 2009, 01:08
by Techy111
Bet he had a strong "pucker" factor going on though.... :o
Sad....1 dies....1 lives.....
Tony
Re: Passenger lands King Air
Posted: 15 Apr 2009, 02:03
by FlyTexas
Techy111 wrote:Bet he had a strong "pucker" factor going on though.... :o
Tony
Imagine how the 5 passengers must have felt.
A "group pucker" was going on I'd say. ;-)
Brian
Re: Passenger lands King Air
Posted: 15 Apr 2009, 03:02
by Erick_Cantu
DaveB wrote:Sad indeed but I can't see any pilot however unqualified just sitting there waiting for the aircraft to make contact with the deck. Self preservation can be a strong motive to 'lift and shift' ;-)
ATB
DaveB :tab:
Kind of like that engineer that made an accidental flight in a Lightning...
Re: Passenger lands King Air
Posted: 15 Apr 2009, 14:28
by Nigel H-J
How very sad but wonderful that some-one on board had flying experience to bring her down safely.
Echo's a repeat from what my father told me many years ago, he used to fly from Gloucester to Leeds Bradford airport every couple of months by company aircraft to attend meetings and always used to sit beside the pilot, my father was one of the first Link Trainer Instructors in the RAF during the war and the pilot used to fly in Coastal Command so they became quite friendly. My father was scheduled to attend a meeting in Harrogate but at the last minute he had to go elsewhere for an important last minute meeting with a company. Fate or what?!!........When the aircraft took off in what would have been my fathers' return flight to Gloucester it was believed the pilot collapsed behind the controls....sadly all those on board were killed! :-(
Nigel.