Flying private is glamorous, time-efficient and fabulous until your pilot becomes incoherent and you’re faced with a life and death situation as a passenger, which is precisely what happened to a man on a plane from Florida headed to the Bahamas. 

Thankfully for that passenger, an Air Traffic Controller named Robert Morgan was a certified flight instructor and heard the call from the plane and sprung into action. 

It was a single-engine Cessna 208, and the passenger radioed in that the pilot had “gone incoherent.”

The passenger added something else to that SOS call to the tower; “I have no idea how to fly the airplane.”

Here’s what Morgan told CNN. 

“I rush over there and I walk in and the room is really busy … and they’re like, ‘Hey, this pilot’s incapacitated. The passengers are flying the plane. They have no flying experience. I said, ‘Oh boy.’”

The passenger has been around aviation for years and seen other pilots fly so he could take instructions from Morgan. While Morgan was an experienced flight instructor, he had never flown this model of Cessna, so he pulled up a picture of the layout of the instrument panel and started walking the passenger through what to do. 

Here’s some of the audio picked up by LiveATC. 

“Try to hold the wings level and see if you can start descending for me. Push forward on the controls and descend at a slow rate. Try to follow the coast either north or southbound. We’re trying to locate you.”

Working in tandem, they got the plane down safely on the runway at Palm Beach International Airport. The passenger just did something it would usually take over 20 hours of training to do. 

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