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Passenger lands plane successfully, after pilot dies

By Chris Umpierre

Source: News-Press

A tragedy thankfully didn’t turn into a disaster Sunday when a passenger successfully landed a small airplane at Southwest  Florida International Airport after the pilot had a seizure 20 minutes after takeoff.

Although the passenger who eventually landed the plane was a licensed pilot, he wasn’t certified to fly a high-performance turboprop aircraft and had never flown a King Air plane, according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.

A Fort Myers air traffic controller, whose name also wasn’t released, talked the man through the landing by calling a friend in Connecticut who was familiar with King Airs.
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