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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nathan Place

‘Hero’ air traffic controller speaks out after helping a passenger with no flying experience land plane

WPBF

An air traffic controller has described how he helped a passenger with no flying experience land a plane after its pilot became incapacitated.

“I knew the plane was flying like any other plane,” Robert Morgan, a controller at Palm Beach International Airport (PBIA) in Florida, told WPBF. “I just knew I had to keep him calm, point him to the runway and tell him how to reduce the power so he could descend to land.”

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