| Passenger lands plane after pilot dies |
Doug White and his family had enjoyed a smooth takeoff and were ascending through the clouds when the pilot flying their twin-engine plane tilted his head back and made a guttural sound. The pilot, Joe Cabuk, was unconscious...
White had logged about 150 hours recently flying a single-engine Cessna 172 but had no experience flying the faster, larger King Air. He declared an emergency to air traffic controllers — White already knew how to use the radio. On Sunday afternoon, he got his first lesson landing the larger craft.
One of the air traffic controllers called a friend in Connecticut certified in flying the King Air, 43-year-old Kari Sorenson. Sorenson got out his flight checklists, manuals and cockpit layout sheets and issued instructions to the controller. The controller relayed the process to White.
White, 56, landed the plane on his own about 30 minutes later, coaxed through the harrowing ordeal by air traffic controllers who described exactly how to bring the aircraft to safety.
The pilot, Joe Cabuk, died!
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