FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A plane landed safely at Palm Beach International Airport after “a possible pilot medical issue in the air,” on Tuesday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, thanks to the help of an air traffic controller who instructed the passenger of the single-engine Cessna 208 on how to land the plane.
“I’ve got a serious situation here,” the passenger said to the air traffic controller, according to the call log obtained by WPBF News Channel 25. “My pilot has gone incoherent. I have no idea how to fly the airplane but I am...”
WPBF identified the air traffic controller as Robert Morgan, of Jupiter, who used a cockpit diagram of the Grand Cessna Caravan to guide the passenger through the steps to descend and land.
