HOW did a PASSENGER Land this Airplane?!
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Published 2022-05-29
On the 10 May 2022, after a fishing trip in the Bahamas, a Cessna Grand Caravan is travelling back to the United States when the pilot passes out at 10,000 feet. One of the passengers on board, Darren Harrison, who has no flight experience takes control of the situation.
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Below you will find the links to videos and sources used in this episode. Enjoy checking them out!
Sources
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Cessna on floats: wipaire.com
www.wipaire.com/
Maimi Center: FAA
www.cdn.stuckmic.com/images/data/525/miamiartcc.pd…
Robert Morgan: THOMAS CORDY/THE PALM BEACH POST
eu.palmbeachpost.com/
Steam Guage Cockpit: cockpitposters.co.uk
www.cockpitposters.co.uk/product/003-new-cessna-ca…
Steam Glass Cockpit: cockpitposters.co.uk
www.cockpitposters.co.uk/product/002-new-cessna-ca…
PET 2000 RADIO: UNKOWN
www.geocities.ws/columbiamotower/BackupRadio.jpg
Darren Interview Photo: FAA
www.dailyadvent.com/news/5c8d4b6f4f27feef7a7fe19bd…
Darren Harrison: gistvic.com
www.gistvic.com/news/darren-harrison-florida-plane…
ADIZ Zone: Department of Defense
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Identification_Z…)
Sunglasses Footage: Atharva Prabhu via Twitter
Live ATC Audio: LiveATC.net
CHAPTERS
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00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Brief History
01:20 - A Scary Situation
05:21 - NORDO Event
07:05 - “I’ve No Idea How To Fly The Airplane”
08:12 - The Transponder
09:09 - Time To Descend
10:02 - Help Is On The Way
12:01 - Visual Guidence
13:51 - Palm Beach International
15:28 - The Problem With Flaps
17:43 - “I Can’t See The Screens“
18:57 - SRA Approach
20:34 - His First Solo...Complete
21:29 - Dealing With The Casualty
22:41
All Comments (21)
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If Harrison goes to get his pilot's license, he'll be one of the few pilots with more landings than takeoffs.
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Pretty amazing to go from "I have no idea how to fly this thing" to "where should I park?" in such a short time. I am shocked the plane took off in the first place with the non-pilots giant balls of steel onboard.
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The professional pilots cheering him on when he landed is amazing!!!
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Just checked the news, and apparently Ken Allen - the pilot - has recovered and is back to flying after 17 months. He took the doctor who performed the life saving surgery on a flight and Harrison will fly with him again as well.
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I watched a video of the ATC communications as this drama unfolded, and an American Airlines plane at the airport was told that he had to hold, short of the runway, the ATC said 'The passengers just landed a plane". The AA pilot acknowledged the instruction, and then a few seconds later did a double-take! "Did you just say a passenger landed a plane?" "Yes". "Oh my gosh, that was a great job!'
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One small correction: the pilot actually suffered a Type-A aortic dissection. It is a massively serious situation and actually quite amazing that he survived given the delay in getting him to the hospital.
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It might sound daft but even the pilot, at a time when he wasn't in a good state, managed to communicate thus giving vital seconds of mental preparation time to the two passengers. Good job all around.
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The air traffic controller should get a medal for helping to guide this guy down safety
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What Harrison did is amazing. What happened to the pilot is even more amazing. Kenneth Allen had a torn aorta. His cardiac surgeon said that 50% of patients who suffer an aortic dissection don't survive the trip to the hospital. Of those who make it to the hospital alive, 50% die within 24 hrs. Allen underwent a 9 hour surgery. He was home less than a week later. Just wow.
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My family is full of pilots. My grandpa insisted that all his children and grand children know the basics of flying. He was a retired Navy pilot who flew fighters in WW2 and Korea and later commercial flights. He owned several small planes and if you flew with him you had to know how to operate the radio,read the instrument panels, and understand the breaking systems for emergencies such as this. That passenger did an amazing job.
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I admit, I cried when the messages from the pilots watching him land came up on screen. It's so nice to see one of these stories have a good ending!
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Big props to Cessna for making planes that are relatively easy to fly as well.
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This guy is a true gamer. Calm, cool, and admits he is just winging it without playing the tutorial.
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The tower operators show that CRM doesn't have to end at the flight deck. The resources brought together rapidly and with complete disdain for egotism is a credit to these amazing professionals—and one amateur (the pilot).
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Didn't even see this video until now. This is actually my mom's cousin who landed the plane. He was so busy with interviews for days after this event happened that our family didn't hear it was him until the reports came out, due to him being so busy.
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If I ran a flight school, I would have offered this guy a fully paid scholarship for instruction. Can you imagine having this guy as your flight school's spokesperson!
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“Harrison was convinced he would get the plain on ground one way or the other” Glad he managed to pull off the non-trivial way to achieve that!
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This reminded me of John Wildey from a while back. His pilot friend died mid-flight and he had to be talked down and managed to land. He was 77 years old with no flight experience but mere weeks after the incident he took his first flying lessons.
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Many stories about the passenger taking over when the pilot became incapacitated. I met a lady who landed the plane when her husband died of a heart attack mid flight. She had never been at the controls of an aircraft, and ATC gave her the world's fastest pilots course
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Hearing Petter say balls in his professional pilots voice kills me😂😂
