Alone, a student pilot has landed in Australia with his Cessna. An emergency was the reason: The flying instructor of Max Sylvester lost consciousness in the middle of the hour.
Sylvester, in their mid-thirties, immediately turned to the tower of Jandakot small airport in Perth, Western Australia, for help. He remained astonished, as a sound recording shows.
"He's leaning against my shoulder, I'm trying to hold him up, but he keeps falling down," Sylvester said. When asked if he knew how to handle a plane, the student student replied curtly, "This is my first lesson."
"They are doing a really great job"
In the following minutes, the pilot tried to give Sylvester courage, "They're doing a really great job, I know it means stress, but we'll help you get down." And student student Sylvester managed a nearly perfect landing, as eyewitnesses reported - including Sylvester's wife and his three children.
Head of the flight school, Chuck McElwee, said he has not experienced anything like this in the past 30 years: "It's hoped it will turn out well, and this time it worked."
Alarmed rescue workers did not have to intervene. The flight instructor was immediately taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. His condition is stable, according to McElwee.