An off-duty pilot flying as a passenger stepped in to help land a Southwest plane after the captain fell ill and became incapacitated on a flight from Las Vegas to Columbus, Ohio. NBC’s Maya Eaglin reports.
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Bless his heart
Isn’t there a co-pilot alongside the other pilot?
There is a flight engineer who also knows how to fly the plane.
Yes, there always is a copilot. The passenger pilot just helped out with communicating with air traffic control reliving the copilot/first officer of that task.
This is every off duty pilots dream 😂😂😂
Not if u have your atp
@Zoe Mellow what do you mean haha😂 I have my commercial multi and fly for a private owner operator yea I’m definitely not checked out in a 737 nor do I work for a 121 op or 135 op, but I’m sure if you were a fellow pilot like myself who flys right on the citation X, I would help in anyway possible if they just needed more crew in an emergency and there was no one else available.
Not really.. I’m an airline pilot. If I was deadheading or commuting, I wouldn’t be happy if something like this happened.
He was in the cockpit talking movies about gladiators
Wondering, so the pilot felt ill and became incapacitated. I would of thought that the pilot is supposed to be in great n better health than the many ppl that’s basically in his hands other than God.
“Surely you can’t be serious…”
I am serious and don’t call me Shirley 😂
Oh, so he helped with radio traffic while the 1rst officer landed the plane. The way journalist and network writers format their writing is confusing. Just state what happened Geeez
God puts angels at the right place and right time.🙏🏾😇
They won’t follow up to find out what caused him to become “sick”. Mark my words!!!
Yes, the plane wasn’t leaving the Virgin Islands with important people on the flight, just dopey sheep on this one.
The Captain had fish for dinner.
That’s why they have a co-pilot which of course the airlines want to get rid of to save money.
Talk about GOD putting you in the right place at the right time!!!!!!!!!!
Fear mongering reporting, do you think a flight attendant actually came on the P.A. and said does anyone know how to fly a plane? the people on the plane probably didn’t know what was happening, I’ll guess we’ll have to wait for the real story from the passenger’s
Oh Stewardess, I speak Jive.
This happens all the time, you dopey Liberal sheep, move along nothing to see here.
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It was great another airlines pilot stepped up. My only question is, why did he not fly on his own airline as an airline employee? Route, cost ? 😮
It’s always nice to write ‘one of the two pilots fell ill…’ to be clear instead of fear mongering. Just saying.
That wasn’t nothing but God
Ironically you on the plane ✈️ omg Thank God they believed him and was able to even communicate with the passengers Amen 🙏🏿
🙌🏽
Wow, that headline is so incredibly misleading.
CNN is upset, that the plane didn’t crash or the off duty pilot wasn’t black.
There were no danger!
Off duty pilot, and a nurse onboard. Thats a good group of passengers.
Flight attendants used to be required to be nurses, way back when
pilot must have eaten the fish, thus Ted Striker to the rescue
Aviation teamwork! ❤
He took the sauce. A bunch of it. Bout 8 doses
Medical emergency-cloth shot? They probably fly a second pilot undercovered just for that.
Wow
…and to think, some airlines are lobbying congress to have only 1 pilot on the airplane. Profits over people.
scary!
Assistance is always appreciated, but I am 100% certain that everything would have been fine even if there wasn’t. The system was designed that way.
God bless.
will put a damper on plans for automated flights (down to one or no pilots)
a co-pilots needs to know everything, but a captain only needs to know one thing…where’s my co-pilot?
I guess Jet blue is going pay more for merger.
i would also fake a stomach pain to avoid going to ohio
off topic, but i love Maya’s hair. i remember when all the newscasters had to have the same straight boring bobs.
The way the newscasters told this story was so dramatic, the airplane can land with one pilot…
Flying sucks nowadays. Glad I got it out of my system a few years back.
Heart Attack/Aneurysm/ Clogged Arteries. Stop eating steak and other meats before you fly!!! Your body doesn’t digest food at high altitude!!!!
You know some 22 year old with a PPL was drooling and about to break out his card out of wallet..then this ATP pilot messed everything up
This should be a lesson to airlines who are lobbying to have regulations changed so that only one pilot is required on some flights which currently require two.
That is why there are two. The workload is bigger and yes it is better to have two; but the first officer is normally a very capable pilot on his own who can land the plane. I am sure that the other pilot/passenger was called in just to help with the radios and lower the first officer workload. So all this sounded way worse than what it actually was
How did they verify he was a pilot?
STOP hyping this incident as a Joe Schmo passenger helped land a plane!!! Typical media, the “passenger” was a trained airline pilot!
Some companies….to save money are considering having one pilot.
Ever have a dream that you’re at work? This pilot just had the living nightmare of that scenario.
He was probably vaxed. We should expect more of this coming soon.
Nice job everyone. Hope the Captain feels better.
❤
There is always a flight engineer in the cockpit who also knows how to fly a plane.
The Boeing 737 does not require a flt engineer. Modern airplanes are so automated that flt engineers are a thing of the past.
Flight engineers don’t really exist anymore and are a thing of the past.
Oh honey….we are worried about you.
I hope they pay him for safely bringing a plane in. And give him a big bonus
Are you trying to fly to Ohio?
And then they want to have one pilot in the flight deck and rely on a chip to take over and land safely.
Cut the breathless reading, the first officer IS a pilot n another man jumped in who was also a pilot. All was well. Need a new news reader.
I play a lot of Flight Simulator. Does that count?
Another clot shot victim
MRNA doing its thing
Sheeple shot
The off-duty airline pilot passenger had a choice to make LIVE(Fly the plane) or DIE(Do nothing), clearly he chose the former.
Thank you Pilot for taking over the plane. Very quick decision. We all are proud of you. I hope the airline shows some recognition for you doing such a wonderful job.
So just another day at southwest
So what was so scary ? The copilot is more than capable of flying and landing the airplane all by himself. Lucky for him he had a little help from that off duty pilot. News casters make it sound like everyone on board was seconds from hitting the ground.
Get Capt. Sully back on the left seat. ❤️
I hope June Cleaver was onboard to help translate jive talk 😅
Yeah, no co-pilot needed.
From an article last year: “Airlines want you to get comfortable with flying without a co-pilot.”
“The psychological barriers are probably harder than the technological barriers,” Boeing Co. Southeast Asia President Alexander Feldman said at a Bloomberg business summit in Bangkok last week. “The technology is there for single pilots, it’s really about where the regulators and the general public feel comfortable.”
the vaccine is so safe and effective commercial pilots were forced to take it
5th southwest pilot in two weeks to “fall ill”. Now you know the rest of the story.
Pilots rock. Hero!
it shd b very concerning indeed for anyone on a plane thats piloted by TWO sheepers that both have been poked..
Only in Ohio
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We really need to look at the way we use language today and the over the top descriptions of certain situations that are perhaps out of the ordinary but in no way “terrifying” Or “Life threatening” to describe something as simple as a pilot falling ill on a regular public transport flight, what you do by using this sort of description for something simple like this Southwest inFlight emergency is for want of a better word Blunt the meaning of the words so that when there is an actual catastrophic event it does not conjure up the importance of said event.
one pilot in one big a$$ airplane? 😖😖😖😖, “Sure, blame the wizards!”.
acting like he landed the plain with one finger lol he helped man the radio lol
lol the white americans must have been scared
Another vaccinated pilot bites the dust.
“Safe & effective”
That’s why you have two pilots in the cockpit!
Just imagine hearing over the intercom system, “Is there anyone who’s a pilot onboard? The captain just fainted. Help us!” And also–this passenger was employed by another airline, however flies with Southwest.
Where is co pilot. Don’t say nowadays southwest airline just have one pilot fly the whole plane
I have a pilot license. From now on whenever I fly commercial, I will identify myself as such to the flight attendants so I can be put to good use, should the need ever arise.
seems to me the copilot handled the flying. as they should. and the other guy just helped on comms. kind of a misleading title.
They always say “the pilot” as if there is only one. Why don’t they say, one of the 2 pilots?
El Jabo, si?
What happened here? The pilot got vaxxed.
Surely you can’t be serious?
And we still have gallactically stupid people who are pushing the gallactically stupid idea of less than two pilots in the cockpit. Tech addicted techno-geeks who have zero understanding of how to operate a transport category aircraft full of humans.
I just want you to know we’re all counting on you. And don’t call me Shirley. 😅🤣😂
Was he vaccinated?
“Helps land” is a bit of a stretch
21 pilots are from Columbus….not sure how it relates, but it should
anyone know how to fly an airplane, who didn’t have fish for diner?
Weird how many pilots are getting ill, collapsing and dying suddenly?
I remember when flights were Safe and Effective.
Ill have ChatGPT help me fly this plane!
I guess captain had the fish.
…You all are still flying Southwest?
Dropping like flies! It’s only gonna get worse. Have fun flying. Especially when they start hiring pilots based on skin color, gender or sexual orientation.
I wonder…how to find a pilot in the cabin?
If the crew just asked “Hey, is there anyone can fly a plane?”, I guess the passengers would panic.
What is it with all this hyperbolic…..dramatic words?! No wonder people dont watch the news. People, including pilots, get sick in the air everyday. And drama about the nurse who was monitoring the patients? No. Just that off duty pilot. And can you say for a fact the recording was the ‘other airline’ pilot? Or the pilot on duty. And its not a big deal to land a plane on your own. Good grief!
And the co pilot???