Passenger Takes Controls After Pilot Incapacitation

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Passenger Takes Controls After Pilot Incapacitation
Episode 2 of Air Traffic Control Stories
A regular flight took a dramatic turn when the plane suddenly nosedived, disorienting everyone on board. One passenger, Darren Harrison, saw what was happening. The pilot had become incapacitated. Without any flying experience, Harrison climbed into the front seat and took the controls.
At 10 a.m. on May 10, 2022, a Cessna 208 Caravan flying at 12,000 feet from Marsh Harbour Airport in the Bahamas to Florida’s Fort Pierce International Airport contacted Fort Pierce Tower, alerting them to the unfolding emergency. One pilot and two passengers were on board. To the tower’s surprise, it wasn’t the pilot on the radio, but a passenger who had been forced to take the controls. Harrison had struggled for 20 minutes just to get the radio working, and he just wanted to get home to his pregnant wife. This is the conversation between Darren Harrison and air traffic control.
Air traffic control audio licensed from LiveATC.net.
Unnecessary communications and pauses were trimmed for clarity.
The positions of the aircraft may not be 100% accurate. Only involved aircraft are shown. Animations are based on air traffic control communications and data from flight tracking services.
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@jo3ywils0n39 5 ай бұрын

The passenger/pilot's immediate flying capacity and knowledge of aviation makes me wonder if he was a sim pilot

@CatskillProduction 5 ай бұрын

Yeah he definitely knew a little bit.

@bren2106 5 ай бұрын

Yeah same, I don't think known your decent rate would be so immediately obvious to just anyone?

@gargoylebrother 5 ай бұрын

I remember reading the new story on this incident. The passenger had flown on several other flights on aircraft like this one and had spoken with pilots and had learned several of the controls and how to operate the radio some.

@akalaification 4 ай бұрын

This guy's favorite thing to do was playing MSFS.

@FishFind3000 3 ай бұрын

Ikr, for someone who has never flown he knows what he’s doing.

@jd14305 5 ай бұрын

Most avgeeks dream of this situation to happen to them, but in reality it's terrifying!

@jakobkivi2496 5 ай бұрын

Imagine: You dream about it. It realy happens: umm, so what im doing here?

@jshumphress13 5 ай бұрын

Amen. I dream about it, but I’d probably shit my pants if it happened.

@skykingusa 5 ай бұрын

Wow, it's amazing to hear the actual ATC comms with these people in the planes. Keep these videos coming! Great videos.

@metern 4 ай бұрын

That must be the scariest situation for the tower when the passenger doesn't respond and they can't get in contact with the plane.

@metern 4 ай бұрын

The last video of the tower and student emergency was way scarier to listen to.

@sky173 5 ай бұрын

Glad to hear good news all around. Good job to the passenger and I'm glad the pilot made a full recovery. Cheers.

@dennisc6716 5 ай бұрын

This is the only time you want ATC giving you a phone number to call.

5 ай бұрын

The guy flying was smart enough not to mess with the radio when the controller tried to put him on another frequency, mess that up and suddenly you have no one to talk to...

@this_is_a_tiny_town 5 ай бұрын

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking"

@ChristopherBurtraw 5 ай бұрын

My jaw dropped, not when i heard the passenger landed successfully (still, great job) but when I heard what happened to the pilot. I gasped and was 100% expecting the pilot to not make it, let alone be cleared to fly again. Aortic tears and dissections are no joke!!!

@mrkhoros 4 ай бұрын

Most airplanes are very modern these days and can land on their own given the right set of commands to the computer. He was being instructed by a seasoned pilot from the radio too so I don't understand why your jaw dropped.

@ChristopherBurtraw 4 ай бұрын

@@mrkhoros reread what I said... Did you catch what incapacitated the pilot? It's a miracle he survived let alone able to still fly. The fatality rate even with immediate medical attention is not great, and this pilot was almost 2 hours out from getting attention from symptoms onset. The landing is cool but no miracle, so I agree with your point, I think you simply missed mine.

@mrkhoros 4 ай бұрын

You are right. I didn't read your comment well.@@ChristopherBurtraw

@iancanuckistan2244 5 ай бұрын

I'm glad you picked this up lucaas. Staying calm and following instructions can make a recovery.

@Lucdera 5 ай бұрын

Most important thing you have to take care about in such a situation: Stay calm and relaxed

@guyseeten2755 3 ай бұрын

Yes. Relax and enjoy the view.

@XSFlanger 2 ай бұрын

@@guyseeten2755 Relax and shitbrix 😆

@gpaull2 5 ай бұрын

Right after this happened I remember hearing that he didn’t have a pilots license, but had either done lots of flying with others or had done some training flights.

@Lasse_Pedersen 5 ай бұрын

This is crazy! Thanks for covering this.

@BassMasterCHS 5 ай бұрын

Hey lucaas, when you announced the name of the pilot, I was floored. I’m related to him. I thought this was a more recent incident.

@ep2653 5 ай бұрын

WOW!! This video gave me the goosebumps. Glad everyone was ok.

@mrichards4724 5 ай бұрын

Keep these vids coming man. Love them 👌

@christopherleveck6835 5 ай бұрын

100% that guy was drunk..... And had flight experience....

@marktrain9498 5 ай бұрын

Yes, I think he’d clearly had some lessons, at least.

@Finn-kd3ic 5 ай бұрын

bro what?

@rickrudd 5 ай бұрын

The first thing he did was calmly identify himself by the tail number, which is a little suspicious, in that it shows he knows something about flying.

@PhillipJohnsonphiljo 5 ай бұрын

He might have found a checklist of info board on the plane to use. He might be ex or current military or have some interest in flight sim games or aircraft in general. All those things help, but still zero experience flying an aircraft

@CatskillProduction 5 ай бұрын

Yeah that call out was impressive. Definitely knew a little something

@giorgiontanas8618 5 ай бұрын

many planes have a tag with the tail number on a visible spot on the control panel for the pilot to see and identify with while flying the plane and talking to atc

@rickrudd 5 ай бұрын

@@giorgiontanas8618 you think Joe Schmoe off the street instinctively knows to say, "November Tripple Zero Bravo Lima" or whatever? No. They say, "MAYDAY. OH 💩! IS THIS ATC? WE'RE IN TROUBLE!" I'm not saying it's a stunt. I'm saying he understated his experience, even if it's just hours and hours of flying in the copilot seat with his buddy, without ever taking a class.

@thebeastman485 5 ай бұрын

nice vid!!

@vasiovasio 3 ай бұрын

Man, this is INSANE! Big Bravo to him!

@pesawatindonesia 5 ай бұрын

superb video mister 🤩😍🤩😍

@gabriellemeadows1675 4 ай бұрын

Experience one way or the other, that man did an amazing job! He had no previous flight experience with the plane and didn’t know the controls etc! His family should be very proud! The ATC guy was fantastic and deserves a medal! These men a women save lives with no experience themselves in the tower. Just mind blowing! So glad all where safe and the pilot recovered well.

@dougadams9419 5 ай бұрын

I took a flying lesson when I was 16 in a Cessna 150. That was in the late 60s. I know how to fly a private plane, but could never afford to get a Pilot License. I know enough if that happened to me today (at 72) to change the radio to 121.5 MHz and declare MAYDAY. I would have no trouble landing the plane anywhere.

@DSparks607 5 ай бұрын

This dude has at least done some simulator flying. I doubt the average member of the flying public would have any idea what a transponder is.

@LanceHKW 5 ай бұрын

Wow - love these happy ending!

@underchecker 5 ай бұрын

That's so cool!

@valeriec.4756 3 ай бұрын

Wouahhhh, amazing 🙏👏🏻👏🏻

@Deion245 5 ай бұрын

Hope they are ok

@benorex8980 5 ай бұрын

Those were some excellent air traffic controllers- keeping the situation as calm as possible while giving direct instructions

@Wikarian99PL 5 ай бұрын

I saw this story before, this Passanger had already some experience in flying, he wasnt just a normal passanger

@Lucas_Tulic 3 ай бұрын

'Ident'... I-N-D-E-N-T' 😂

@MoussaDoes 5 ай бұрын

I am a glider and I don't think that I can handle this problem!

@robm3074 5 ай бұрын

And they want single pilot operations in an airliner in several years? I hope that never takes place.

@deans6129 5 ай бұрын

Everybody involved did a great job however if you have never dealt with radio lingo for aircraft it is a very real and scary situation especially if you have a situation like this and ATC is talking to you in a language you don’t understand. Several years ago Canadian Transportation and safety board did several experiments with people off the street who had never been at the controls of an aircraft and put them in a flight simulator and they found if the person had basic instruments they could easily follow ATC commands and almost every person landed the aircraft versus a modern cockpit with glass panel instrumentation as almost every person had sensory overload with the amount of instruments, dials and radios they had to look at and in those cases roughly 60% of the people crashed the plane due to not being able to read the instrumentation and losing focus on flying the aircraft. Still kudos are in order for that passenger to keep a level head for the most part.

@cheegum6296 5 ай бұрын

I do not fly and this is still my worst nightmare ever 😳

@raalaa121 5 ай бұрын

Horrific especially when he says i dont know what you mean to the control tower

@theglockdub Ай бұрын

If i was a passenger i wouldnt even recognise a callsign of my aircraft and how to chat via radio finding where is PTT button, he is definitely sim player or av geek or both. First suspicious thing ive noticed is how he professionaly named not only his altitude but an altitude he is passing as well. But description says there were a lot of cuts.

@Rmm1722 5 ай бұрын

Wow 😮

@MrSunshineDUB 5 ай бұрын

wow!

@JustL1P 5 ай бұрын

Wow I would have gone low and jumped in the water just to give people who dont realise an idea of how amazing this is

@squintsyadams8463 5 ай бұрын

This air traffic controller is killing me.

@richardlong4076 3 ай бұрын

I allways wonder even with all that I do know about AV I also think about all that I don't know and often wonder what I would do if I was in a situation such as this I hope I'd be able to step up and get the airplane safely on the ground but realistically it's a situation that you don't know how you would react until you are actually in this type of situation.. thankfully the vast majority of us will NEVER be in this situation...

@kershaw117 5 ай бұрын

this is an old situation, little late dude

@LeifNelandDk 5 ай бұрын

Where is the INDENT button?

@davidwebb4904 5 ай бұрын

In reality, the guy had a lot of actual flight experience.

@GigsVT 5 ай бұрын

couldn't be much. who says 10-4 on the radio

@davidwebb4904 5 ай бұрын

@@GigsVT You know of Trevor Jacob? There's lots of attention seekers out there. They disgust me.

@davidwebb4904 5 ай бұрын

@@rickrudd Ever heard of Google?

@40pike96 5 ай бұрын

wow

@ProCodeGaming 5 ай бұрын

See how flying is not as hard as you think?

@xmvirus202 5 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@Smartzenegger 5 ай бұрын

Too bad there's no footage of the landing.

@androidphone1901 5 ай бұрын

Paint job brought to you by PS1

@bijoyroy11 5 ай бұрын

😮😢

@dh-flies 5 ай бұрын

My cell phone never works above 3000'. What a waste of time that conversation was...

@proffessorclueless 5 ай бұрын

Sounds like God would have been a bit too busy sorting out this mess to help anybody else that day.

@nurrizadjatmiko21 5 ай бұрын

As an Avgeek, I am dreaming of taking over the plane if i was onboard a general aviation aircraft with the pilot was incapacitated but i also knew that maybe it's not gonna be easy for me. That's why i am always played mobile flight simulator only and it's Real Flight Simulator.

@bob8308 5 ай бұрын

I wonder if the passengers got their money back.

@unternullgrad 5 ай бұрын

Passenger who has no idea how the cockpit works.. barely managed to find the radio transmit button.. ATC: Hey we haven’t identified you yet but let’s do a frequency change

@mikek8377 5 ай бұрын

What's with ops 21!! Sounds like pillow talk. Something is wrong there with her!!

@corbin6866 3 ай бұрын

Screw it, give him his PPL, he earned it (Im kidding FAA please don't come at me)

@nickarganbright7218 5 ай бұрын

I have no problem with him flying again, but i hope he brings a co pilot from now on just in case. Although maybe its not as big of an issue as im thinking, I mean if a doctor gave him the go ahead he is probably fine. Still Though I would second guess him being my only pilot.

@clqudy4750 5 ай бұрын

Just alt+f4

@mattgaming8717 4 ай бұрын

I can tell, hes a ganer thats been in the air before. Calm. Netves but he gots it. Just needed a real tutorial.lol

@Sultan_theboy 5 ай бұрын

I’m still here

@roadofmountainofficial7888 5 ай бұрын

The passanger does seem to know a little about aviation lol

@PixFail 3 ай бұрын

I'm surprised the atc didn't ask to check the carbon monoxyde patch, if the pilot is unconscious the rest of the plane might become soon also. Also quite lacking reassurance and basic flight instruction (ie. do you know where the throttle is and so on). Anyway glad to know they landed safely

@MultiBigDenis 5 ай бұрын

learn to fly, just in case...

@davidwebb4904 5 ай бұрын

This was a classic attention seeker. He had plenty of flight time.

@shibasurfing 5 ай бұрын

holy fuck

@xploration1437 5 ай бұрын

Meow

@andre-7423 5 ай бұрын

This story is BS and deserved a thumbs down. the "passenger without any flying experience" was actually co-owner of plane or good friend with lots of trips togheter with the pilot. And did had flying experience - but not vertified. Even my sons at the age of 7 and 10 had flying experience, with hours of manual flight and basic throttle/altitude control. Not necessary qualified to land, but far from helpless - just like this "passenger without any flying experience" actually was. This story was blown up like that back then, but there is NO reason to repeat that mistake over 1,5year later. - except sensationalism.

@GigsVT 5 ай бұрын

an attentive passanger that maybe held the controls a few times before and landed the plane is still a passenger that landed the plane. I wouldn't call it BS

@spacejaga 5 ай бұрын

Pilot who was flying when his heart gave up.... Got operation and is flying again.... Miracle.... For real??? You got Harrison Ford flying and landing on taxiways..... At this point you wouldn't surprise me if a headless chicken got a license and was cleared for flying in USA

@mattgaming8717 4 ай бұрын

I can tell, hes a ganer thats been in the air before. Calm. Netves but he gots it. Just needed a real tutorial.lol