Passenger: 10/4 What heading do I need to be at? Give me a. Passenger: Yea, they are descending right now at 550 feet a minute, passing 86/40.ĪTC: Continue the descent and try to level off at 5,000 feet. Pushįorward on the controls and descend at a very slow rate. Try to hold the wings level and see if you can start descending for me. What was the situation with the pilot?ĪTC: Roger. Repeat that frequency default.ĪTC: Disable and put 7700 into your transponder.ĪTC: Can you say again what the situation is?ĪTC: That came in a little broken. I see the coast of Florida in front of me and I have no idea.ĪTC: Do you know how to operate the transponder 7700? Passenger: I've got a serious situation here. Working on the audio now, here's the transcript "You know it's nothing short of a miracle and I’m really glad for them and their families they had such a great outcome," said Dalmolin. "I remember my first days when I first started flight training I was white-knuckled and sweating for my first ten hours of flight training," he added.ĭalmolin said it was lucky it was daylight so the passenger at the wheel could see where he was going because it would have been extremely difficult if it had been at night or foggy. And then landing it, and that to me, for a zero time pilot," said Dalmolin. ![]() ![]() "The level of difficulty that this person had to deal with in terms of having zero flight time to fly and land a single engine turbine aircraft is absolutely incredible," said Dalmolin.ĭalmolin said one of the flight controllers was a flight instruction and printed out a layout of the cockpit of the plane, and used it to guide the passenger through the steps of flying and landing the plane."The incredible part is not just flying the aircraft but obviously the most difficult thing which is configuring the aircraft for approach and landing. The man told flight controllers he had no idea how to fly the plane - tower recordings show he said he couldn't even turn on the navigation screen.Dalmolin said the single engine turbine plane is fairly sophisticated and he can't believe flight controllers were able to talk the passenger through not only recovering from the plane's dive, but stabilizing it and then landing it safely at PBIA. Jet Blue pilot Justin Dalmolin said he had to hold off on landing while flight controllers guided the passenger-flown plane in.The unidentified man took over the controls of a Cessna Caravan after the pilot "became incoherent" on the way back to Florida from the Bahamas Tuesday afternoon. A single-engine plane passenger who jumped behind the controls and landed the plane safely at Palm Beach International Airport after the pilot fell unconscious performed an incredible feat, according to a commercial pilot who landed just afterward.
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