N559DW full flight with radar overlay - Doug White King Air landing HD

[fresnosmooth2000]

LOL -

"niner delta whisky - Are you using the autopilot or are you flying the airplane"

"me n' the good lord are hand flying niner delta whisky"

[lstorm2003]

This was really not that big of a deal IMO. I'm sure it was stressful, but I think this guy had the skills to get this thing on the ground safely all along. He just lacked confidence, but his abilities are clearly there.

[mooro1973]

Incredible. Good work Sirs and Maam.

[Kopihucky]

this illustrates one reason that flying is safer. Imagine if that happened driving down the road? Everyone in the car would be dead because there is no time to react. Think what it would be like to fly next to a corpse for 20 minutes...

[Kopihucky]

Good thing he had some flight experience. Flying itself is not very hard.. all aircraft are relatively the same but if it had been someone with zero experience the outcome likely would of been a lot different. Most people who had never flown would not even know how to key the mic.

[sergery102]

Go to ground, LOL!

[slaven607]

Dang, for a single-engine pilot...a miracle. I'm amazed it's his first time flying a King Air. The last words for the pilot at 00:26 shocks me!

[ttjoslin]

At 36:23, I'm pretty sure I hear Mr. White say, "I gotta keep the pilot off the controls." That sure gives a mental picture of just how intense this was!!

[ttjoslin]

Major, Huge, Super Props to Mr. White and the ATC. So grateful that they were all able to come together and get this done! You are all heroes in my book!!

[heettreet]

set aside aviation ,,set aside experience ,,, this guy is one i'd trust anywhere

[andysim232]

considering his pilot is dead I think this guy did a freaking great job!

[clomid100]

Great video of real life incident. Good job of Mr. White flying and thanks to You Tube for posting video in this format.

[urvideoizgay]

Ft. Meyers Approach: "9DW, Are you using the auto-pilot or flying yourself?"

9DW: "Me and the good lord are hand flying this thing, 9DW."

haha love it!

[fortune75ful]

10. mop all operation..,;'''''

[fortune75ful]

10. mop all oparation

[Tiggerpilot]

IT WAS VERY EERIE TO HEAR THE PILOT'S LAST WORDS. DOUG'S PERFORMANCE WAS EXCEPTIONAL. AS WELL AS ATC. MY HEART GOES OUT TO ALL OF THEM. I ONLY HAVE 44.5 HOURS IN A C172 WITH ONLY ABOUT AN HOUR SOLO FLIGHT...CANNOT IMAGINE BEING IN THAT POSITION.....WITH ALL THE FAMILY IN THE BACK...FOR CHRIST SAKE.

NOTICED 5 ALPHA KILO WAS STEERED AWAY SEVERAL TIMES, THEN VOLUNTEERED TO HELP. IMPRESSIVE.

[PilotInCommand777]

At the beginning you can hear the last words and breath of the pilot. WoW Just sends chills down my spine. Doug, You are amazing!!!

[rotorfib]

simply amazing, so glad this was made available...super koodos to the controllers and the pilot that landed the king air :D

[jamesfawr]

I have over 3,000 hrs total time with a lot in twin HP aircraft. Anyone that thinks they can just get in and fly that type of a plane is a dumb a**. It is not as easy as MS flight Sim. Dam good job in my book.

[lstorm2003]

@jamesfawr I agree with you, but this guy had the skills all along.. He just lacked confidence.. If you already have flight experience, which this guy clearly did, then this isn't really *that* big of a deal. Again, great job, but I don't think its a miracle that he landed this thing safely. His radio communication skills are excellent, that alone tells me he has some significant flight experience... He is a better pilot than he thought he was

[UnkleJustin]

Fascinating!!! Just fascinating. 

[freakyflow]

hard to fly with 30 mph diffrece in overspeed and stall and 100 things running in your head

[Tiggerpilot]

A VERY MESSY SITUATION. GREAT THING THAT DOUG WHITE HAD SOME FLIGHT EXPERIENCE, OTHERWISE....THAT AIRPLANE WOULD CORKSCREW INTO THE GROUND. GREAT JOB, DOUG, AND ATC!!!!!

[connellrocraymond]

Hell of a job dude. Hell of a job!!

Gotta hand to ATC as well. Couldnt have been more helpful

[Weefles]

This man is a hero. It could have ended so much worse than it did...........

[couden]

The professionalism of all the people involved with the successful outcome of this situation is truly amazing. The fact that a king air pilot, who was out cruising around in his convertible, sat on the side of the road on his cell phone passing along information on how to land this aircraft. absolutely amazing.

[Bestjamesbond]

so happy i didnt watch all 38 minutes of that

[gquinta5]

Everyone in this video is a hero! This should have been a bigger story.

[Luch1516]

Bravo guys! Remarkable job!

[mopbucket1976]

the guy sounds like a truck driver!!!lol they can drive anything!!!lmao

[pkzathruz]

@mopbucket1976 truck drivers dont own their own jets, even if he sounds like one.

[cjd1987]

This is my best friend Maggie's dad. So thankful for Mr. Doug and Mrs. Terri!!!

[cjd1987]

@cjd1987 And Maggie of course!

[ThePilot314]

Very professionell ........... after touch dwon they change the frequency onto the ground.

May be the guy taxied to the apron too:-))))

CONGRATULATIONS again [I have about 650 hours in air and about 1250 takeoffs]

[AlexMOFUKA]

What are the sporadic red dots on the radar that come in and out randomly?

[jrlogik]

You can just hear the emotion in his voice when it is all over with. He knew God was with him on that flight. Great video upload, thanks.

[justlostagain]

Un flipping believeable ... great job by the controllers and AMAZING job by Mr. White to stay calm and just handle the situation. WELL DONE SIR!

[rudly]

I hope the pilot that has a" single engine Land "get an honer multi engine land ,Good job sir.

[gwhendri1]

your radar will be fucked by the earth changes

[golds079]

@gwhendri1 you will be schaange soon

[skymedik]

Simply amazing....

[rudly]

@skymedik I hope the pilot that has"single engine land" gets a big ata a boy plus an upgrade

[GIIdriver]

I feel sorry for the "Dead Pilot"... His life mattered too

[rermstarchild]

can any one go and see a radar at work? and ask some things.

[Phyrex999]

Wow. Great job. i cant believe anyone would talk crap about this guy.

[TheTodd2u]

Doug did a very good job holding himself together in the situation. The controllers from center were under a ton of pressure trying to work all the planes around this terrible ordeal. My hat is off to all the controllers involved.

[Lje123]

Crazy shit doug! by the way, i heard about this story while you were on "drew and mike on WRIF radio" You were pretty entertaining :) Glad all turned out well man.

[ABQFatCat]

I hate the media!!! Don't get me wrong. This female ATC was very good, very calm, and professional. But the male controller at Fort Myers Approach was the real workhorse here. But that didn't matter to the liberal media - they were tripping over each other praising this woman as the only hero of the story. Such bullcrap! If I was this woman, I would have been embarassed to appear on TV.

[moviesforrandy]

great job everyone.

[jmeras77]

Amazing job on the part of ATC and Mr. King. I first heard the story on NRP and decided I needed to hear the whole thing from beginning to end. I totally agree with tbeevers regarding Mr. King's performance. Flying a twin engine aircraft with a deceased pilot and family as passengers - over open water - requires a cool head and nerves of steel. An awesome example of teamwork and professionalism.

[moviesforrandy]

great job lisa and doug. you were verry lucky. i dont understand why there were no copilot abord.thank god you had some exp.

[k9bark]

Incredible job! Does anyone have a video of the landing?

[dx9s]

WOW! nice and calm, the way it should be! Having Cessna (172 was it?) experience helps a lot! Doug White kept cool asking all the right questions!

[MotorRotor13]

Awesome video. Watched the whole thing. Surprised there was no jubilation at the end. He just asked which taxiway to go on! LOL. I would have parked right in the middle of the runway and got the hell out.

[RebelRadius]

Thoroughly superb job from the pax/pilot , SIR! Kudos! ATC professional as always.

ATC took 6 min's to respond to a simple & clear question from the pax. Is this satisfactory?

No pilot offered assistance (be it to respond until ATC can sort their shit out), why not?

If this was you, who would you want to speak to? A pilot perhaps?

Why did ATC have to relay questions/instructions from a 3rd party?

The conversation shud be with the pax, a pilot & controller (pilot being in comand)

[sioux0863]

@RebelRadius

Yes, that was satisfactory. That aircraft was not the only one in the controller's sector.

Not every pilot knows how to fly a King Air, so it was better not to say anything.

I would want to speak to ATC. They would be able to get me to the nearest airport.

ATC cannot just hand their headset over to someone who is not a controller. Once again, the controller had more than just that aircraft in his sector.

ATC has to be in command for reasons as I just stated.

[RebelRadius]

Thank you for responding to my questions.

ATC have the capacity to move traffic onto an alternative frequency. If there is a dedicated channel for emergencies, howabout a dedicated flight instructor who can be patched straight in? Simulator facilities operate pretty much around the clock, surely a quick call to an instructor on a red phone would suffice? I am not criticising ATC or anyone else, but to me, the response was far from being "slick".

[kabrody]

@RebelRadius

Center controllers do not have a dedicated channel for emergencies. there is one frequency per area...which would be up to 6 or 8 different sectors.

and in that type of situation, I doubt anyone could be "slick". And none of us ever claim to be 'slick' to begin with.

We are controllers, not pilots. Kudos to the controllers that are pilots...but the controllers did a kick ass job for being in that situation to begin with.

[juicerooster]

dude for real. i have low time in a single engine land.... if i was in that situation, i want a king air expert on the radio immediately telling me what to do. and atc relaying from the 3rd party! wtf was that??? ive i was that dude i would have been ready to kick some ass when i landed.

[RebelRadius]

@juicerooster Yes, I have to admit, that was my reaction after i initially heard the transcript.

[snellbill398]

congrats to everyone involved and to the fellow that took over flying the aircraft. I'm sweating bullets listening to all of this and they are maintaining there cool better than me,again congrats to all.

[smoothvirus]

Well done. Excellent work all around.

[tbeevers]

People on here amaze me...it's real easy to talk all big and bad from your computer seat but put yourself over the Gulf in the right seat of this King Air...your family is in the back and a dead pilot to your left....we'll see how you do. BTW, ever seen the instruments in a King Air?. He only had a handful of solos in a 172 which was several years ago. My dad knows Doug personally and he said his wife and two daughters were praying the entire time. Awesome job in my opinion.

[hondacrxrus]

@tbeevers well put. 

[JPaulThePilot]

Tampaslice and tadrosp, let me start off by saying that you guys are assholes. I supose that you guys have forgotten your first solo eh? The King Air did not bring him home, he flew it home. Not to mention he had a dead pilot on the controls and his family in the back! The questions that he was asking were very relevant. He wanting to make sure he was fast enough to stay out of a stall and not too fast for touch down. Its like a ME pilot landing a 757 with his loved ones on board and no co-pilot

[Dabarda]

@JPaulThePilot Not to mention, if I got this correctly, that he seemed very cautious about when to drop his flaps, repeatedly asking for the correct airspeed indicated at (or below) which to do that. This is what every competent pilot does. He was pretty much learning the flying parameters of the thing right in the air. I'd say his pilot training took over rather nicely as he dealt with this ordeal.

[00Billy]

WTG DW !

[av8tor17b]

Flashing light "AP DISC" he mentions means autopilot disconnect. No factor.

[ckgilbert]

For Mr. White's detractors, keep in mind that you didn't learn to fly overnight and probably aren't the smartest pilot out there. His pilot died in front of him, his family was on board, and he's a PP flying a fast turbine twin, but you want to call him slow and point out his deficiencies. I'd take Mr. White as a student and all things considered, I think he did a great job getting the King Air on the ground.

Egotistical punks. You are probably regional FOs flying 1900s or RJs for $25k/yr.

[tadrosp]

Glad this turned out fine. But this SE pilot seems to be on the slow side, maybe just too nervous and frantic. Glad he was able to manage though!

[8UP1977]

@tadrosp Your pilot died, you, your wife and kids are in a plane where moving the wrong lever the wrong way could exceed your own ability to fly the aircraft. If you're not NERVOUS you must be an android, or an internet expert.

[Tampaslice]

Good job by all involved. Mr. White seemed to be trying to make it more difficult than it was, he was in the best plane he could've been in. King Air pretty much brought him home by itself. Mr. White appeared to forget all his pilot knowledge, panic was setting in and he was talking without thinking first. Absolute miracle all aboard made it on the ground safely. Calm controllers saved the day.

[DinoDoesStuff]

Good job!

[Niekenn]

DW is truly a hero for his effort, quick thinking and for remain in calm when the things went bad... also the controllers were fast in their responses and they made all the things that were possible for DW to make a safely landing... im sorry for the pilot who died in this flight. congratulations to mr. DW and all the traffic controllers for the heroic actions that they did to make DW familiy come home safe.

[RiverCityEMT]

It's clear that the true heros here are the King Air passenger Doug White and the female controller who seemed to think of everything, such as not to turn during the decent and hold the yoke when disengaging the autopilot. Sounds like she may have been a flight instructor at some time. As a pilot myself, I never would have believed that this safe, smooth landing could be accomplished by a single engine pilot. Hats off to all these extremely professional controllers and to Doug White.

[whizzer53]

The female controller is Ms. Lisa Grimm and she is not only an ATC but a flight instructor as well. You can tell by her conversation. She is the one who got White convinced to disengage AP, realized his immediate problem was the AP climb that he couldn't stop, and carried him on over to Ft. Myers.

[trechan]

who ever that female is, she did a good job teaching the guy

[sadfreddy]

Condolences to the family of the expired pilot. Very sad his life ended in this way. He was actually interfering with the controls; that is why DW tried to engage the autopilot so they could pull him out of the pilots seat to ease the landing.

I think DW is the hero here; greasing a landing under very difficult circumstances. I heard he was trying for his instrument rating which may have helped here.

Check out his sense of humor at 9:19'We're having a hoot'. Cool under fire.

[cutterschoicenotmine]

its clear although the pilot isn't a certified pilot at the time, he has either held a license at one time or has flown up front a lot. turns out he had a license in the 90's, lucky really.

[jsb4life]

He had 230hrs in a 172. The original pilot sounds like he's dying when he calls atc.

[whizzer53]

Pilot dies fron 00:26-00:31 I think he is supposed to be saying "Miami center, king air 55niner delta whiskey 8500 for

14"

Sounds like he just runs out of breath.literally.

[jsb4life]

good ear.... Doug white didnt fly since the early 90's also... he definitely was not current in an aircraft.

[atuaseva]

@jsb4life Doug White also owns that King Air and leases it to a charter company. Just happens he's on his own plane having the pilot fly him, his family, and leaving Marco Island coming from a funeral.

[whizzer53]

passenger started out sitting in co-pilot seat, just to look out the window and listen to ATC

[arlichar11]

the pilot,must have known he was passing out or else why would thisguy have been in cockpit ...also..first atc was not paying attention to.what was really goin on...but then this guy had it under alot more control than most would..thats why he was confused....thisguy sounds like a good ole country boy....amazing to hear this great effort...

[atuaseva]

@arlichar11 Doug White also owns that King Air and leases it to a charter company. Just happens he's on his own plane having the pilot fly him, his family, and just leaving Marco Island coming from a funeral.

[simonizhere]

awsome job done by all. 5 stars. I wanna do this one day.

[whizzer53]

NO, you don't!

[arlichar11]

wow.....

[shiloe26]

I know it was not a comical situation but this guy kept pretty good attitude about the whole thing. Sounds like somebody thats easy to get along with and hang out with.

[777kudzu]

Extraordinary audio/visual. Good thing there was calm WX and sub pilot had experience in small craft.

Thanks for posting.

[PilotPete109]

Interesting to listen to 'as it happened'. Thanks for posting.

[batmeins]

Excellent presentation, professionalism and outcome. Thank you for posting this.

5*

[JSAirways]

couldn't they have switched to a different frequency? I mean it must have kind of sucked for the rest of air traffic...?

[whizzer53]

Can't figure out why no airline/charter pilots offered to help. Surely there was someone up there with King Air time. Just one guy said, "Good Luck." That was it!

[MrLoddl]

incredible that the guy started to get his instrument rating a couple of months earlier. Without this, not a big chance to get the plane down save. But still how he did it was great. wouldn´t like to be in the same situation. I think I would really swet.

[bahneproductions]

FM Approach also did a good job on calming the pilot down and giving instructions!

[whizzer53]

I still say ya'll don't make near enough money and your spouses have no idea what you do every day for a living!

[FeroX113]

That's the skills of FSX ;)

[whizzer53]

FSX is a lot of fun, but when the real thing develops........FSX is irrelevant!

[FeroX113]

Lol, it was a JOKE dude ";)"

[drawde1980]

i disagree

[JSAirways]

well, depends on how u go about using fsx. If u really take it seriously and gather Information as to how it's done in real life and then try to do that in fsx, I think it can be quite useful...

But of course if u just fly fsx for fun and fly with an outside veiw all the time or something, it's a different story...

[icemon440]

As the video progressed, you may notice that all the Miami arrivals were rerouted to the south to stay out of this sector and to keep them off this frequency. By the end of the time Miami Center was working N9DW, he was pretty much one of the last aircraft on frequency. When Fort Myers Approach was talking to him, they utilized a discreet frequency so attention could be devoted to him. Watching this makes me proud of my profession every time.

[icemon440]

I still get emotional every time I hear this job. Also the behind the scenes work involved was impressive. If you notice, the Gulflight plane southbound at 15 thousand was wire with N9DW and since he was having difficultly holding an altitude, the Gulfflight plane was put on a southwesterly heading away for him. Also, at the begining of the video there were quite a few other aircraft on frequency.

[icemon440]

I am a controller at Miami Center and was in a meeting at the time. Since I am a certified flight instructor I was paged to the area to plug in at this sector an assist if necessary. Lisa flew Learjets prior to being a controller and she did an excellent job in calming Doug and I really wasn't necessary. I just sat and observed until for Myers Approach was talking to the aircraft.

[AABkuwait87]

Is he having fun ?!!! making everyone nervous on the ground ??? co-pilot !!! and doesn't know how to descend an aircraft ?!! God knows what could happen if there were no controllers like those on the ground :)

[cskog001]

He wasn't a co-pilot. He was a passenger on board. This was a single-pilot twin-engine King Air. The guy that took over was one of only 5 or 6 passengers, most if not all, were his family. He is a pilot of single engine "low" performance aircraft and is unfamiliar with the autopilot on board the King Air which is why he continued that ascent through 17,000. He kept calling out to ATC because the first guy didn't understand what he was talking about when he kept saying that AP was on 10K.

[VEE1r0tate]

this guy is a hero

[jonathankochhougaard]

Wauw..!

[hghalpha]

I think he earned his multi-engine rating with this flight!! lol. amazing job

[lipkinasl]

That is awesome flying, and amazing job by ATC, I hope some awards were issued for this. Those involved are heroes.

[phybergod]

Also, don't forget that there is a dead guy sitting next to him the entire time.

[jdpainter]

"Me and the Good Lord are flying this, NDW". Classic.

Great job of remaining calm. You also must remember that his family was in the back of the plane which increased the stress for him. What a great job he did. The controllers did a great job too.

[jonny2387]

great stuff. great controllers!!!!!!!!!!! glad i live in miami with such great controllers!!!!!!!!!!!

[angelfuree]

This was awesome stuff. Great job to all involved in making this a successful outcome.

[Photle]

very nice job, good vid!

[Chick6517]

what the heck LOL you caught me off guard with that one hahaha that was hilarious ... haha good job you guys made me luagh [=

[cerinstelatdevara]

me to lol:)

[monxini1982]

Good worK!

i admire to capability of being calm in this kind of situations guys!

at least your voices sound calm

congratulations

[tulagKY]

I'd like to meet the man who landed that plane and shake his hand.

[FLjock01]

I completely agree. I too would like to congratulate this guy.

[szybkilopez566]

@tulagKY I'd like to be shoved into his shoes. 744 would be perfect ;-)

[chick5581]

Man, you sure do learn a lot from watching youtube! haha It's true. That's why I like it! but this is an absolutely a favorite now haha

[JustDundee]

Very impressive! Just think it takes quite a while for the ATC controller to realise that he needs to find a King Air pilot to talk 9DW down. But maybe he is working on that outside of the audio recording...?

[hodnik]

he sure is. as soon as we have an emergency we are trained to notify the sup or cic on duty. they will find and take care of most if not all coordination.

[FLjock01]

PLUS - the controllers need to maintain control of all of the other aircraft at the same time... (the world didn't stop, in spite of the emergency). EVERYONE did an awesome job.

[worlock1422]

Great work from everyone, Very sad to loose another fellow pilot but from the ATC controllers to the Rookie pilot everyone worked togather, by staying calm and flying the plane..which is the 1st thing you must do, fly the plane not the problem. Great work 5 ppl are alive cause everyone kept their cool.

[phillyslasher]

Man's game!

What an impressive display of courage and calm by the inexperienced pilot and professionalism by the ATC.

[ihor69]

what the fuck you care? you dont like it.. fuck off.. dont have to complain about someone actually using there time to inform other people. OTHER people might want it.. u aint the only one.

[ihor69]

umm mate,, pretty sure u dont know me,, or know how i look like.. and how am i selfish explain please.. and how do i fail at life.. i think ur the one that plays with his dolls in his mothers basement,, ur trying to insult me but u just look at urself and think ur a loser so u just explain urslef.

u fail at life, and at everything else!

[venehosting]

scary !

[krlss26]

indeed

[ubuibiok]

Pilot in command dies in flight ..., single engine rated pilot with very low hours on board with his family on vacation takes over to land twin engine King Air and walks away by golly, ... he had a Better Day !

[21ADB21]

brilliant

[airboyd]

Updated video to include actual radar plot to go with audio.

[Transam941]

Hello, I live in Port Charlotte and I know the air traffic controller that was talking. I started a senior project in February and the controller offered to be my mentor. I was impressed with him. He used to work in Miami back in 2000. A plane flown by a drunk pilot buzzed the tower. He had some interesting stories to tell. I called him after this incident and was astonished by the media attention it received. He was a naval ATC back in the eighties, then moved to civil. A great guy indeed.