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04-13-2009, 11:46 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stafford Springs, Connecticut
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| Passenger lands plane after pilot dies. Just found this on Yahoo. Passenger lands plane in Fla. after pilot dies
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04-13-2009, 11:58 AM
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| Good thing it was a King Air!
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04-13-2009, 12:00 PM
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| sounds like that scenario from a movie i saw, online it isnt a boeing or airbus  but still you just have to be lucky to land a thing like that if you havent got any experience in it.
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04-13-2009, 12:16 PM
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04-13-2009, 12:19 PM
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| Yeah, sounds like he had a level head, pretty good.
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04-13-2009, 12:31 PM
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  | Yeah, sounds like he did a good job, good on him.
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04-13-2009, 12:36 PM
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Had to be a stressful situation. TO
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04-13-2009, 12:45 PM
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| Well done to him!
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04-13-2009, 01:05 PM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Very well done! I would buy that man a beer!
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04-13-2009, 04:03 PM
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Bl**dy good job, well done that man.
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04-13-2009, 04:04 PM
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