As the pilot was unable to continue flying due to a heart attack, his wife arrived safely in a small plane in the USA. The couple was on a twin-engine turboprop plane en route from Henderson, Nevada, to Monterey, California, when the 78-year-old suffered a medical emergency, as consistently reported by several US media outlets and confirmed by the Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). .
It is said that his wife, who had no flying experience, then took over the controls. With the help of air traffic controllers who gave her detailed instructions over the radio, the woman managed to land the small plane safely in Bakersfield, California. Her husband was then taken to a hospital, but he died there, as the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote, citing the man’s company.
“To my knowledge, this is unprecedented,” Ron Brewster, director of an airport in Kern County, California, told CBS. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire career.” Both the woman and the Beechcraft King Air 90 aircraft survived the landing unscathed.