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Air Traffic Controller Describes Helping Inexperienced Passenger Land Plane – NBC 7 San Diego

Air traffic controller Bobby Morgan was able to talk a passenger without flying experience through landing a plane after the pilot suffered a medical.

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera 20240604 17:54:00

that s only the half of it. cnn s carlos soares has the rest of the story for us. carlos, what have you learned? reporter: ana, good afternoon. so, according to the faa, the pilot told passengers that he felt sick in the minutes before he passed out on the controls after taking off from the bahamas. at that point, the plane descended a bit and then made a sharp turn. now, one of the passengers that was later identified as darren harrison, he was able to regain control of that plane and get on the radio. now, on wednesday, we spent some time with him, with the air traffic controller, rather, robert morgan, aboard his cessna and he walked us through what he told harrison to do for the flight and the landing. morgan said that he guided harrison some 20 miles offshore south of boca raton airport to palm beach international airport because it had a longer runway. at one point, the two of them switched over to a cell phone because harrison did not know how to change the radio frequency and

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