A passenger with no flying experience radioed an urgent plea for help when the pilot of a small plane suddenly fell ill off Florida’s Atlantic coast and landed the plane safely with the help of air traffic controllers.
“I’ve got a serious situation here,” the man said on Tuesday afternoon, according to audio on LiveATC.net, a Web site that broadcasts and archives air traffic controller communications. “My pilot has gone incoherent. I have no idea how to fly the airplane.”
An air traffic controller in Fort Pierce responded, asking if he knew the position of the single-engine Cessna 208.
“I have no idea.