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  • In case you haven't heard quite enough about the King Air landing....

    ... you have come to the right place. For completeness' sake, three more very informative links, the first two of them from immediately after the flight last week: 1) From the federal government's FocusFAA site, interviews with and pictures of the Ft. Myers controllers whose voices you hear on...
    Posted to Jim Fallows' Aviation blogs on 24 Apr 2009
    Filed under: Aviation, Appreciations
  • King Air pilot-passenger landing: yet more tape, yet more heroism all around

    Via the Naples News in Florida, this update on the first 14 minutes of transmissions between Douglas White, the low-time single-engine pilot who found himself in control of a twin-engine King Air whose pilot had just died, and the controllers who talked him safely to the ground. The segment released...
    Posted to Jim Fallows' Aviation blogs on 21 Apr 2009
    Filed under: Aviation, Appreciations
  • Another view of the impressive passenger-pilot landing

    From Dave Kammeyer, a pilot-reader who was more impressed by the pilot-hero in this recent case than with the much-celebrated air traffic controller. I heard the audio of the King Air pilot the other day, and found it very interesting. You didn't mention it in your post, but frankly, when I imagined...
    Posted to Jim Fallows' Aviation blogs on 15 Apr 2009
    Filed under: Aviation, Appreciations
  • Dramatic listening: passenger-pilot landing the plane

    For real-life drama fans, the air traffic control tapes of Douglas White being talked through the landing of a King Air airplane, after the professional pilot dropped dead at the controls, are riveting and, to put it mildly, admirable. An AOPA Online interview with White, including links to the recording...
    Posted to Jim Fallows' Aviation blogs on 14 Apr 2009
    Filed under: Aviation, Appreciations, Audio
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