{"id":491681,"date":"2022-05-13T11:29:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=491681"},"modified":"2022-05-13T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T07:36:22","slug":"pilot-down-passenger-takes-over-with-no-idea-how-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilot-down-passenger-takes-over-with-no-idea-how-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot down, passenger takes over with \u2018no idea how to fly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger in a small plane off Florida\u2019s Atlantic coast used the cockpit radio to make an urgent plea for help after he realized that the pilot was too sick to handle the controls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a serious situation here,\u201d the man said Tuesday. \u201cMy pilot has gone incoherent. I have no idea how to fly the airplane.\u201d An air traffic controller in Fort Pierce responded, asking if he knew the position of the single-engine Cessna 280.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no idea. I can see the coast of Florida in front of me, and I have no idea,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger in a small plane off Florida\u2019s Atlantic coast used the cockpit radio to make an urgent plea for help after he realized that the pilot was too sick to handle the controls. \u201cI\u2019ve got a serious situation here,\u201d the man said Tuesday. \u201cMy pilot has gone incoherent. I have no idea how to fly the airplane.\u201d An air traffic controller in Fort Pierce responded, asking if he knew the position of the single-engine Cessna 280. \u201cI have no idea. I can see the coast of Florida in front of me, and I have no idea,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}