Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Mysteriously Dies

Just recently, a passenger is forces to land a plane with it's pilot becomes incapable to. Luckily this passenger had a pilot's license and had already flown 130 hours before. On April 13, Doug White and his family were passengers on a small plane with one pilot flying them to Jackson, Mississippi from an island off the Florida coast. Just as the plane was going over 9,000 the pilot mysterious becomes unconscious and dies. So Doug had to take over, however, he had never flown this type of plane before. He radioed with the air traffic controllers and they helped guide him to land in a nearby airport. Though he did not know who to land that plane model he still knew generally how to land a plane and some buttons to push. After all this, the cause of the pilot's death is still unknown.

"Passenger land turboprop plane after pilot dies" CNN.com. Apr 13 2009. Apr 14 2009.