Hero passenger lands plane after pilot passes out

[@juancatfish1]

Sad Story. Her Husband was the Pilot, and he died. She did a great job.

[@Cartoondude135]

This gives a whole new meaning to "He earned his (angel) wings to fly to Heaven on that day.😇😇"

[@merec3627]

How do you report such a great story so poorly?

[@goodbadfake7301]

This kid should be a Captain of 787!❤

[@farmergeo5374]

Sad story, terrible reporting. Also, they expected her to crash it so they diverted her out to Bakersfield, which is a lot of open desert.

[@brentsummers7377]

What a great job she did. Landing gear & propellers all intact. Landing that plane would have been difficult for a pilot who had only flown small Cessna 172 or Piper training aircraft, but for a non-pilot a huge challenge.

[@bugspub]

Hero passenger? Or Pilot’s wife?

[@sandraconnelly7507]

Both are true...

[@bugspub]

@@sandraconnelly7507 yea but one would think that she was just a passenger…the way the title and story presents

[@hp4415]

@@bugspubshe just not an average passenger, but the headline sounds a lot better with the passenger word. clickbait

[@scarlattibombatti4920]

@@bugspub I agree with you, I did share this link and am sure that some of whom I send it too, will see this as 'manipulation' which is in a certain way true and makes it even more difficult to get them to see the TRUTH of what has happened ad still happens... very sad to bring it like this.... is that maybe on purpose so the sleeping will go on sleeping?

[@esils]

Age of the pilot? How many on board? Experience of passenger hero? Reporter had one job 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@dahlesa]

"Mythbusters" tested this scenario many years ago where main pilot can't do his/hers job and it was proven that it can be done by complete novice if needed. It's a little troubling that this has happen now few times already.

[@andrewyoonhobai8453]

with all the war thunder pilots they should interface mouse and keyboard to the plane, and a third person pov camera

[@thelight2230]

I feel like this video should have gotten way more views

[@KA-rq3gz]

Amazing, I get chills. Free airfare for life.

[@CarmaCat2024]

Not the case; that was not a commercial flight. It was a small aircraft & her husband was the pilot and she was the only passenger.

[@digger3578]

Another good argument for only flying during daylight hours. Non-pilots would struggle to fly and land at night.

[@NitaiVasudev106]

How Is He Died? By Flight? The Pilot How How Fish.

[@NitaiVasudev106]

ONo Fish Yes Sad Story

[@IIISentorIII]

So she obviously knew how to operate a plane if her husband was the pilot.

[@lindapindabelinda3570]

My husband is a registered nurse. I’m pretty sure you would not want me to practice medicine on you.

[@Nick210]

@@lindapindabelinda3570that’s different. She would have likely sat in the cockpit with her husband over several trips and would probably be more familiar with certain things than a complete novice.

[@TheNifster]

It's not NBC's business to see who talked to who

[@maryjeanjones7569]

Why was he even allowed to operate a plane if he had such poor health? Something is a miss here!!

[@hp4415]

Heart attack

[@maryjeanjones7569]

@@hp4415 Then obviously he had a dangerous health condition. He should have not been allowed to fly a plane especially a passenger plane.

[@hp4415]

@@maryjeanjones7569 huh? Anyone can have a heart attack, even when you are young and have no health complications. Just you have less chance of having a heart attack. Even commercial pilots have heart attack why flying before, this is just an unfortunate situation. Obviously the chances are small but You can’t tell people to not flying because there is small chance they will have a heart attack why flying. Do you tell people they can’t drive a car because they might have a heart attack?

[@maryjeanjones7569]

@@hp4415 No not anyone. Yes those with health issues which doctors are aware of. Flying a passenger plane or driving a car has no comparison. Doctors have the ability to stop both with heart conditions from driving.

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

Private jet?

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

Who passed away? The pilot? I take it the “passenger” was some form of pilot. Unbelievably lame reporting

[@EugWanker]

The passenger who landed the plane was not a pilot. Her husband was the pilot, and was pronounced dead at the hospital.

[@Typical.Anomaly]

@@EugWanker Did they say they were related? I gleaned that they were strangers from this report... (P.S. nice name lol)

[@arianebolt1575]

It's pretty common to conceal the identity of people involved with things like this. There may be a report later, maybe not.

[@EugWanker]

@@Typical.Anomaly It was mentioned in reports elsewhere.

[@NitaiVasudev106]

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