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    Passenger lands plane after pilot dies in flight
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    04-13-2009 11:50 AM
    Crazy:

    Passenger lands plane in Fort Myers after pilot dies
    Monday, April 13, 2009
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    FORT MYERS, Fla.(AP) -- A passenger landed a twin-engine plane at Southwest Florida International Airport after the pilot died in flight, saving five people.

    Federal Aviation Administration officials say the pilot died after takeoff from Marco Island Executive Airport on Sunday. The plane was on autopilot and climbing passed 10,000 feet when the pilot died.

    The passenger who took the controls has been licensed for single-engine planes for 20 years, but isn't certified to fly the King Air plane, a large luxury model.

    To instruct him, an air traffic controller called a friend in Connecticut who is rated to fly the King Air aircraft. The plane landed safely in about 15 to 20 minutes.

    The plane had been headed to Jackson, Miss. The names of the pilot and passengers have not been released.
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    04-13-2009 11:59 AM
    They are lucky that someone with experience was on that plane.
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    04-13-2009 12:41 PM
    wasn't this a movie? In all seriousness glad it ended this way not the other way.
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    04-13-2009 01:07 PM
    good stuff!
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    04-13-2009 01:30 PM
    very cool congrats to the guy that landed the plane
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    04-13-2009 02:35 PM
    "Looks like I picked the wrong time to stop sniffing glue"....Roger
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    04-13-2009 03:02 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Offshoredrillin View Post
    "Looks like I picked the wrong time to stop sniffing glue"....Roger
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    04-13-2009 03:06 PM
    "Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes. "
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    04-13-2009 03:10 PM
    Could have been alot worse outcome.
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    04-13-2009 03:55 PM
    Ever been to a Turkish prison Timmy?
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    04-13-2009 03:55 PM
    A Hospital? what is it?..It's a big building full of sick people, but that's not important now...
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    04-13-2009 04:03 PM
    "Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash. "
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    04-13-2009 04:41 PM
    Tommy, ever seen a grown man naked?
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    04-13-2009 04:42 PM
    We might be cursing ourselves to HELL, but I say F it. Let the Airplane quotes fly

    Give me ham on 5, hold the Mayo
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    04-13-2009 05:17 PM
    "Excuse me stewardess! I speak Jive, let me see if I can help."
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    04-13-2009 05:38 PM
    Do you like movies about gladiators?
    Athiests better pray they're right.
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    04-13-2009 06:06 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Offshoredrillin View Post
    "Looks like I picked the wrong time to stop sniffing glue"....Roger
    Quote Originally Posted by mosi View Post
    "Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes. "
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    Ever been to a Turkish prison Timmy?
    Quote Originally Posted by Offshoredrillin View Post
    A Hospital? what is it?..It's a big building full of sick people, but that's not important now...
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    "Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash. "
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    Tommy, ever seen a grown man naked?
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    "Excuse me stewardess! I speak Jive, let me see if I can help."
    That was a good Monday laugh

    Glad they made it down safely.
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    04-13-2009 07:01 PM
    "good luck , we are all counting on you"
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    04-13-2009 09:52 PM
    Surely you can't be serious. . . I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
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