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Trainee pilot makes emergency landing after pilot passes out

2019-09-03 8 Dailymotion

PERTH, AUSTRALIA — A trainee pilot amazingly made an emergency landing after his instructor passed out mid-flight. <br />According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Max Sylvester was training in a Cessna aircraft at the Jandakot Airport on Saturday afternoon in Perth when his instructor suddenly fell unconscious. <br />Max then calmly called air traffic control and informed them of his situation. <br /><br />"He's leaning over my shoulder, I'm trying to keep him up but he keeps falling down," Sylvester told the controller. <br /><br />Did we forget to mention that it was his first lesson in the two-seater aircraft? <br />According to ABC News Australia, the air traffic controller kept the 29-year-old calm as he talked him through how to get his bee-hind safely back on the ground.<br />The operator asks, "Do you know how to operate the airplane?"<br />"This is my first lesson," Max tells the guy. <br />ABC News reports that the controller then told Sylvester how to reduce the plane's speed, then how to go about landing. <br /><br />With air traffic control with him every step of the way, Max was able to safely land. <br />His instructor, Robert Mollard, is now at the hospital in stable condition. <br />So what's Lesson Two going to cover?

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