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The plane, which a novice passenger landed with help from the control tower, sitting on the runway at Humberside Airport late Tuesday.


NBC News:

Flying instructors in Britain told a passenger over the radio how to land a plane after the pilot of a small aircraft collapsed and died at the controls.
Rory Murray, one of two instructors who guided the plane onto the ground on Tuesday, told the BBC that the passenger had done a “remarkable job.”

"It's a fantastic feeling, knowing I have achieved something and probably saved somebody's life," Mr Murray said. "I think without any sort of talk down he would have just gone into the ground and that would have been the end of it."

The passenger is thought to have had some previous flying experience, but he had never landed an aircraft before the incident on Tuesday evening, according to reports. The pilot was pronounced dead late Tuesday, a police spokeswoman confirmed to NBC News.

Both people on board the plane were “middle aged,” an airport spokesperson told ITV News. Neither person has been named.

Emergency crews were called to Humberside Airport, near the city of Hull in northeast England, after a distress call came from the two-person aircraft to say the pilot had collapsed.

Murray, who works as a flying instructor at the airport, said he had to keep the passenger calm as he talked him through how to land the plane.

The passenger took four passes of the runway, and there were cheers from the control tower when it finally came to a halt on the ground. Witnesses told the BBC the plane landed at 7.50 p.m. local time (2.50 p.m. ET).

"He made quite a good landing, actually," Murray said. “He didn't know the layout of the airplane. He didn't have lights on so he was absolutely flying blind as well.”

The plane had taken off from a small airfield just 25 miles away from Humberside Airport and was heading back there when the distress call was made, police said.

Humberside Airport was closed during the operation. However it is not one of the U.K.’s bigger airports and only two flights, from Aberdeen, in Scotland, and Amsterdam, were delayed while the small aircraft was cleared from the runway.

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Hero Passenger Lands Light Aircraft with Help from Instructors via Radio after Pilot is Taken ill at Controls and Later Dies in Hospital

• Passenger landed the plane at Humberside Airport in north Lincolnshire
• He was helped down from the air by two flying instructors on the ground
  
• Neither he nor the ill pilot were injured during the emergency landing
  

By Daily Mail UK, 9 October 2013


A brave aeroplane passenger was forced to take over the controls and make an emergency landing last night after the pilot fell ill.

The hero passenger was helped by two instructors who guided him fly the Cessna into Humberside Airport, in north Lincolnshire, from the ground.
Humberside Police have today said the pilot, who was taken to hospital by ambulance, was pronounced dead last night.


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Hero: The passenger took over the controls of the plane and made an emergency landing after the pilot fell ill





Dramatic: Although the landing was described as 'heavy', it was said to be normal







Flight Instructor Roy Murray who, along with Air Traffic Control Manager Debbie Zost,
helped a passenger land a plane at Humberside Airport


Police are not treating the death as suspicious and formal identification of the pilot was due to take place later today.
Although the landing was described as 'heavy', it was said to be normal.

Some witnesses described the plane bumping on the runway and sparks coming off the front of it.

According to the BBC, an RAF Se King helicopter was also scrambled to help assist with the incident.
Roy Murray, one of the flight instructors who helped the passenger land the plane, told the BBC the passenger had no flying experience and did a 'remarkable job'.
Mr Murray said he was surprised just how calm the man he knew only as John was as he brought the aircraft down.

He said the novice flyer did four circuits of the airport before landing at 7.30pm.


Night-time view: Plane landed by hero passenger as pilot taken ill




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'Remarkable job': The passenger was forced to make an emergency landing at Humberside Airport,
north Lincolnshire (pictured), after the pilot was taken ill


'He did a beautiful landing,' Mr Murray said. 'I wouldn't be frightened to fly with him.'

Mr Murray, who has more than 30 years of flying experience, said: 'I feel satisfied but sad. It could have been a lot worse.'

Asked how he felt after the landing, he said: 'Ecstatic. Very relieved but also sad.'
Mr Murray said the atmosphere in the control tower was tense and there were handshakes but no cheers when the plane touched down.





'It was tense at times, especially the last mile or so,' he said. 'We couldn't see any lights on him.

'It was just a silhouette in the dark. We just had to judge he was the right height and the right speed, which he was. All due respect.'


Moments before the pilot fell unconscious, a mayday call was sent and the emergency response was declared on the ground.

According to the Grimsby Telegraph, Mr Murray was at home when he received a call alerting him to the crisis.

Mr Murray, who is chief instructor at the Frank Morgan School of Flying, said he had never heard of an incident like this in the UK.

He said he was called at his home near Grimsby at 6.25pm and went to the tower at the airport, where the decision was taken to use the main runway which was 'lit up like a Christmas tree" as it was getting dark.

'I took him round three times,' the instructor said, 'which were reasonable but not good enough to land.
'Then, on the fourth, he made a nice landing.'

Stuart Sykes saw the aircraft, which took off at Sandtoft Airfield, near Doncaster, West Yorkshire, land on its third attempt shortly before 8pm.
He said: 'It came down with a bump, a bump, a bump, hit the front end down, I heard some crashing and it's come to a halt.
'There were a few sparks and three or four crashes, that must have been the propeller hitting the floor. Then it uprighted again and it came to a stop.'

Emergency services gathered at the airport shortly after 6pm yesterday and two incoming flights, from Amsterdam and Aberdeen were delayed while the aircraft landed.




Drama: The aircraft involved in the incident is thought to be a Cessna, like the one pictured (file picture)
Roads around the airport were also closed by police.


A spokesman for the airport said: 'An emergency was declared at 6.20pm by the pilot of a two-seater aircraft. 'Shortly afterwards he was taken ill and became unable to fly it and that responsibility then fell to his passenger.

'Humberside International Airport put into operation their emergency plan. The passenger flew over the airport a couple of times and then was talked down by two flight instructors and the emergency services were waiting for them when he landed safely.'

The flight instructors have today been praised by David Learmount, operations and safety editor of Flightglobal.com, who said 'they did really well to get him down'.

'A guy with no flying experience would have found flying a light aircraft utterly different from driving a car.
In a car, if you don't like what's happening you can bring it to a halt'

'You just can't do that in an aircraft. You can't fly slower than 60mph without falling out of the sky. Also, a light aircraft has a much bigger instrument panel than a car.'
Mr Learmount, a pilot himself, said the instructors on the ground would have had to talk the passenger through every step.
He said: 'They would have had to direct the guy's eyes to the instruments. They would have said to him something like: "You see that instrument on the left, can you tell me what it's reading?"

'They would have helped him manage the speed of the aircraft and the power. Ideally in these situations, another aircraft gets sent up to fly alongside and then the other pilot can talk the emergency pilot through everything.'

Mr Learmount said he understood that the passenger, attempting to land, had done two 'go-arounds' where he pulled out of touching down and pulled away to have another go.
- David Learmount, operations and safety editor of Flightglobal.com




Mayday: Moments before the pilot fell unconscious, a mayday call was sent and
the emergency response was declared on the ground. Pictured is Humberside Airport


Mr Learmount went on:

'He might have survived a bad landing but then the aircraft would almost certainly have been wrecked.
It's a very delicate thing. If you don't pull the nose up before you land then you land very, very hard'


'The passenger may have been helped by the fact that the pilot, on feeling ill, probably put the aircraft into straight and level flight. You could not have had just any old pilot talking the passenger down. It would have had to be an instructor, because they know exactly what to do in these situations.'
- David Learmount


Richard Tomlinson, a friend of both men, confirmed the passenger had never flown a plane before:

'He is a very kind and gentle man who has a passion and interest in aviation but does not actually fly himself,' Mr Tomlinson said.

'He has been a pasenger on several occasions and understands the concepts of what goes on but what he has actually done is nothing sort of phenomenal.'


Former RAF Sergeant, Graham Hendricks, 57, who is a frequent flyer from Humberside Airport, described the landing as 'miraculous.'

Mr Hendricks said: 'For a chap who hasn't flown a plane before to put it down in those circumstances is a miracle.

'It was dark and the passenger must have known his pilot was very seriously ill which would have put him under even more pressure.

'Humberside is the not the easiest airport to land at for a novice which makes it even more incredible.'


Paul Litten, commercial director of Humberside Airport, said: 'We took the distress call just before the pilot went unconscious. We immediately called the emergency services and put into action our emergency plan.'


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