FILE IMAGE - This picture taken on March 25, 2016, shows a Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft from the Thai Department of Royal Rainmaking. (Photo credit: LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A passenger with no flying experience landed a Cessna 208 Caravan with the help of Air Traffic Control in Florida Tuesday afternoon after the pilot had an apparent medical emergency, according to reports. "I’ve got a serious situation here.
My pilot has gone incoherent. I have no idea how to fly the airplane," the unnamed passenger calmly radioed Air Traffic Controllers from inside the single-engine aircraft, WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach reported.
The Fort Pierce Air Traffic Controller asked the passenger his position, to which he answered, "I have no idea. I have the coast of Florida in front of me."The controller told the passenger to keep the wings level and to follow the coast while they attempted to locate him.
A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing on a bridge in Ocean City, New Jersey. The plane landed safely, avoiding vehicles on the roadway.