OT: Unintentional King Air pilot: Live Recording

[rabu]

White and his family were returning home to Monroe, La., from Marco Island, Fla., where they had just attended his brother’s funeral. Suddenly the pilot of the King Air 200 died leaving Doug White, untrained in flying larger planes the task of landing it.

 

 

Control Tower: "Niner Delta Whisky, Are you using the auto pilot or are you hand flying this"

White: "Mainly the Good Lord has my hands flying it, Niner Delta Whisky"

 

“They said do NOT get below 110 knots,” he said. Automated warnings told him the plane was 500 feet above the ground, and White ignored a series of other cautions and alarms. “There were buzzers, amber lights, horns: It was like a circus. The only thing I was concentrating on was keeping the airspeed up and the wings level. You know, just fly the plane.”

 

 

Be sure to listen to the actual control tower conversation at the very bottom of the page..

this guy was brave beyond belief. Click here for the interview and audio recording.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 18, 2009 by rabu