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(2/2)[ATC]The pilot is in a coma. How am I controlling this? part 2
69When I first started learning to flying, I was worried about what to do if my instructor suddenly passed out.
But that actually happened and there is a recording.
A Louisiana man lands a twin-engine plane in Florida with his family on board after the pilot is in a coma. At last pilot dies.
He had some flying experience with his single engine land. but not on this KingAir. The brave pilot was talked down by an instructor and air traffic controller.
White clicked the autopilot off at about 17,000 feet and tried to level the airplane, but it was trimmed to climb and required an extraordinary amount of forward pressure on the yoke. White tried to trim the airplane using the manual elevator trim wheel, but it was partially blocked by the deceased pilot’s right leg. Once he got that task accomplished, ATC asked White to descend to 11,000 feet.
He reached out with his left hand and pulled the throttles back slightly.
“I didn’t know anything about torque or rpm settings,” he said. “I had an attitude indicator, an airspeed indicator, and a directional gyro in front of me, and that’s all I used to fly the airplane. The rest I didn’t pay much attention to.”
The King Air was travelling about 220 KIAS, and White started a left turn as directed by ATC.
He yelled for his wife Terry to come to the cockpit and let her know what was happening. He was concerned the deceased pilot might slump forward against the control yoke and asked her to try to remove him from the left seat. But there was no way she could lift his more-than-200-pound body from the cramped confines, so she tried to cinch his shoulder harness tight to keep him upright.
White told her to “pray real hard” with their daughters as he tried to land.
White had never flown any airplane from the right seat. He gradually descended to about 5,000 feet in clear air well out over the ocean as controllers guided him toward Fort Myers and its 12,000-foot-long Runway 6.
“I don’t know if they were getting everyone out of my way, or getting me out of everyone else’s way,” he said.
The King Air’s indicated speed varied between 220 knots and 140 knots as White made throttle adjustments. At one point he sought to re-engage the autopilot but changed his mind when it began to turn toward a pre-selected heading.
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The BGM is
Whitesand - Eternity (Epic Beautiful Dramatic Emotional Instrumental) [Copyright Free]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5c83Uixoj8