Passenger with no flying experience lands plane in Florida with incapacitated pilot

Florida’s air traffic control received an urgent plea for help on Tuesday from a small plane after its pilot was too sick to continue flying.

“I’ve got a serious situation here,” the man said. “My pilot has gone incoherent. I have no idea how to fly the airplane.”

When asked where the single-engine Cessna was located, the man responded: “I have no idea. I can see the coast of Florida in front of me, and I have no idea.”

“Have you guys located me yet?” the passenger asked. “I can’t even get my nav screen to turn on. It has all the information on it. You guys have any ideas on that?”'

Air Traffic Control finally managed to locate the plane, which was flying about 20 miles off the coast of Boca Raton.

Robert Morgan, an air traffic controller and certified flight instructor, proceeded to instruct the passenger on how to land the plane from the passenger seat. 

"He was really calm," Morgan told CNN. "He said, 'I don't know how to fly. I don't know how to stop this thing if I do get on the runway.'"

“Kudos to the new pilot,” one controller said, congratulating the man who had safely landed the airplane by following Morgan's instructions.

“You just witnessed a couple of passengers land that plane,” Air Traffic Control said in the radio audio.

“I knew the plane was flying like any other plane. I just had to keep him calm, point him to the runway and just tell him how to reduce the power so he could descend to land. It felt really good to help someone,” Morgan said.