Inexperienced Passenger Lands Plane Safely After Pilot Falls Ill

A passenger with no flying experience made an
emergency landing in a light aircraft in Britain
after the pilot became ill, officials said
Wednesday.
He safely brought down the four-seater Cessna
172 on Tuesday evening with the help of two
instructors on the ground, a spokesman for
Humberside Airport in eastern England said
The passenger was unhurt although police said
the pilot later died, without giving details. The
pair were the only ones onboard.
One of the instructors who helped talk the
passenger down, Roy Murray, said he did a
“remarkable job”.
“He made quite a good landing, actually. He
didn’t know the layout of the aeroplane, he
didn’t have lights on so he was absolutely
flying blind as well,” Murray told the BBC.
According to InterAksyon , Murray said there
were cheers in the airport control room as the
plane landed on its fourth attempt, adding:
“It’s a fantastic feeling knowing I have
achieved something and probably saved
somebody’s life.
“I think without any sort of talk-down he
would have just gone into the ground and that
would have been the end of it.”