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  • every kid pilot's dream, without the actual pilot dying of course. myabe just passing out or stuck in the head or something lol.

  • @slowpoke96Z28 i would strike the pilot in the head if it means i get to fly a plane and land it, that would be so much fun...

    especially the part where i get to strike the pilot in the head :)

  • @PlebScrubber Seriously? You could just ask him. I fear for humanity.

  • @campy9sp as if his going to let you land it, the fact that they usually lock themself away from the passangers tells me his no friend of mine

    no trust

  • @PlebScrubber Hehe, I see your point. Commercial travelisn't what it used to be pre-9/11. I used to chat with the crew and could join in the jump seat, or by the engineer's panel. It's different with a KingAir or similar twin, you're all family in the small cabin. Seriously though, if you contact a local school, you can schedule a flight with the instructor, or go flying with a local club. It's an E-ticket ride!

  • Don't mistake this pilots accent for ignorance. It seems that many folks believe that if you talk like this "You Might Be A Redneck".

    Consider this: This passenger/pilot owns this aircraft, So he's probably an educated intelligent person. A King Air 200 costs from 1 million to about 1.5 million USED! So he is probably not a stupid redneck.

    However, I do like his accent.

    LeRoy

  • anyboy know where to downlad fsx

  • All this talk about whiskey and nary a drop to drink.

  • This landing brought to you by Budweiser

  • "One Eight Zero to Five Thousand fer another shot a whiskey. Ah needs, ah say I needs to slow mah descent down, it's 2,500 uh, feet per minute here I need to git mah throttle set fer this uh, descent. Ah don't know, ah say I don't know where ta set it at." lol

  • Wow, that guy sounds like a Southern red neck. He did awesome.

  • I WANT TO DO THAT, TOO!!!! ;)

  • rednecks rule

  • EVERY ONE START PLAYING FSX NOW!!

  • Flight simulator pro!!!

  • he probably played a lot of ace combat

  • Phoney video.

  • Amazing Job 5-5-9 Delta Whiskey!!! God Was With You For Your 1st Twin Turbine P.I.C. Landing!!! R.I.P. To The Pilot Who Passed Away Doing What He Loved To Do!

  • @LifeStartCPR64669 What a first landing. Sorry to hear about the pilot but this guy did an amazing job. Very composed for someone who could have been dead along with his whole family. You could hear the terror in his voice after the landing. Wow.

  • @bdaveshaw Absolutely Agree With you... He was completely beside himself - Not to mention his family was with him! G*d, They must've been just as, if not MORE scared! G*d Bless Him!

  • wow id shit in my pants!!!! they could have shown the landing though

  • guy knows a damn lot about communications and flying

  • @k2477456 for a passenger

  • Nice job of keeping calmn regardless of training.

  • so i gusse playing fsx pays off after all!

  • This is what happens when you spend alot of time in FSX...

  • This reminds me of hatchet.

  • That dude was an student pilot. I can tell. Awesome Job by the way.

  • Wow. "What's the wind?"

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  • @tomburley for him to know to ask that

  • seems like he definitely has some knowledge about a plane. he was probably a private pilot.

  • he was a single engine pilot that happened to be on that plane

  • WHOA! I WISH I COULD DO THAT!

  • 121.9 does not sound like the 121.49 agreed by  pilot !!!!

  • @bigbattua Meaning what exactly?

  • The right stuff. N+1 averted and a drink to this man.

  • how many souls on board?

  • The person who landed the plane was a Private Pilot, only certified in single engine planes. He did a terrific job landing that aircraft!

    

  • good job he aparently got it on the ground bc they switched him over to ground freq. there. ATC helped him out a lot but I like what he said about him and the good lord hand flying this thing lol.

  • He knows how to land a plane safely, but doesn't know how to set the heading bug...

  • @RZ3296 he was clearly never trained on that aircraft, i applaud him

  • @RZ3296 Smaller, simpler planes that a private pilot like himself would be familiar with often don't have a heading bug. Speaking as a private pilot myself, I can safely land an airplane, but I've never used a heading bug. I would have to fiddle with the heading indicator to figure out how to set the heading bug.

  • props to the ATC for staying so calm

  • Good that they all kept calm, very professional!

  • hi knows how to fly ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

  • "souls on board" is the correct term for reporting the number of people on board an airplane. Avoids trying to distinguish between passengers and crew, etc.

  • Wow. did the ATC guy ask 'how many SOULS are onboard'?

    That's a freaky way to put it. What if the dude was an atheist, would the answer be "none"? (and the answer "five"; did that include the dead pilot?)

    Well, I'm kidding, we know the dude was a beleiver. When the ATC guy said "are you using the autopilot or are you flying the airplane?", he responded "may the good lord hand fly this" (near as I can make out).

    Awesome job by all the ATC folk and this dude.

    Also: "huh-wut?" Priceless.

  • @MyLatestEscape He says, "Me and the good lord are hand flying this."

  • sounds like a re run of soulplane.....

  • So he knows how to land and flaps and heading and all that but dont know how to control engines? wtf.... rofl

    Great job anyway

  • @nadinka007

    He was on autopilot when he asked about the throttle. This plane has a constant speed prop which a private pilot will not know how to use unless he has a complex or high performance endorsement. Also, you can reverse the prop pitch after landing. A good pilot doesn't start flipping switches and pushing levers willy nilly, they take their time and make certain they know the consequences of their actions. The guy did great.

  • @nadinka007 Operating flaps, and the general technique of landing, are relatively similar between a simple airplane and the KingAir he was flying. The engines (and even the propellers), however, are a great deal more complex on this turboprop plane than on a simple piston-engine plane like he would be familiar with.

  • FWIKIN ADS!!!!!

  • he was not just any passenger, he had a knowledge of aviation.

  • He was crying at the end you brave ol redneck :')

  • hillbilly flying high

  • That is one cool customer. What I really can't believe is that as the guy is coming in to land a plane he's never flown before in what amounts to an emergency landing the last thing we hear is ATC telling him to change frequencies like it's just a standard incoming flight!!!! That's funny. This guy sure handles it like a pro. Good job whoever the pilot was!

  • @LostUpNorth715 other than his flying abillity it wasn't a real emerg. noting was wrong with the plane. He knew a lil bout flying bc he asked for winds knew headings and alt., knew to read the tail # and how to prevent a stall.

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  • @LostUpNorth715

    when you listen to the full audio, you will find out that the passenger is a single engine privet pilot, so he knows what he is doing basicly, he just doesn't know the King Air 200, he only knows how to fly a cesna

  • @LostUpNorth715 I thought the same thing, but the controller can tell that the passenger has basic experience. He's plenty busy on the approach freq, hewas doing well enough that they didn't take over the frequency. The controllers are entrenched in procedural routine when it comes to radio traffic, so he called out the ground comm. Funny.

  • Dam I hate it when the Video ends way too soon I wanted to see the end of the landing .

  • I don`t hate America. But Airbus had been selling more planes then Boeing. Of the past 10 Years 8 years of that Airbus had more orders then Boeing (6137 Planes VS 5869). So it's only a matter of time before there are about the same number or even more Airbus in the Sky as Boeing. Also Airbus has many planes ending up with low cost African, Middle eastern operators that do not take servicing so serious. So more planes in the sky does not have to mean more accidents at all.

  • Respect to that man!

  • It's not impossible for a non-pilot to bring down even a big plane safely.

    I managed to land a 757 twice in a flight simulator quite easily. Not sure if I could have done it without the runway ligths that indicate corrent trajectory though. (2 pairs of lights that you should keep aligned in your vision)

    And NO this was not FSX. This was one of the pilot training simulators using which you can become a licenced pilot without ever stepping your foot in a real plane.

  • @originalGawwad ATC can tell you how to lower gear and flaps, rest is just power, rudder and stick.

  • @Rychardson15 get firefox ABP. AKA Adblock plus no more advertisements agen there u go all fix'd XD

  • @BLACKWIDOW247 Chrome has ABP too!

  • He sounds like he might be a new pilot or a student by his talk.But either way he done a helluva job.

  • whose that guy? johnny cash !? XD hahaha

  • Always great to see a good news story in these situations! :)

  • I say, I say son...

  • Sound like he started crying after touchdown and the controller told him to switch to ground frequency and nice job...... Hell I don't blame him either.

  • u kno shits serious when atc asks for souls....

  • @8justin88 for every emergency, persons on board is asked for just as standard procedure. souls on board is no longer used.  really for the only reason is souls on board sounds like they are already dead.

  • @blindninja907 tru that

  • Euwee....euweee....I say a shame shame..... oh my sweet maamy o ...she say.....If you can't say a narin thing nice....don't say nothing at all.... this b word this and n word that would have made her ass to start a-itchen....every time.

  • aopa.org has an excellent video /story on this..its called pinch hitter

  • @lerryfish thats MR>NIGGER TO U BIATCH

  • bahahhaha flight sims Yutubewetube PWNED TOP COMMENT...top comment man you got PWNED BIG TIME SON, I BET ALL THOSE THUMBS UP U GOT WOULD CHANGe to thumbs DOWN PWNED BIATCH FLIGHT SIMS wind speed BIATCH WHAT WAT!!!!!!!

  • @phillybluntsj

    You my friend, are a nigger

  • How many souls on board...

  • I think that guy had 9 Delta wiskeys before he took off.

  • Brilliant!

  • Of all planes it had to be a complex kingair, iv done a few landings there , the good thing is that there is one nice long runway. Sounds like he has some experience, but im not sure, he asked about if he should kill the power after landing?

  • A nice note of emotion in the pilots voice at 2:17, it must have been quite an adrenaline rush and let down. Hat's off to him.

  • phuck ! nothing VDO

  • that awesome hillbilly pilot's basset hound was prolly in the copilot seat. this guy rules

  • fucking youtube advertisement pizz me off

  • @Rychardson15 Get FireFox and get the Ad Block Plus plug in! You'll never see another youtube ad for the rest of your life!

  • @Rychardson15  Would you rather pay for youtube?

  • WOW...NO HURT PEOPLE, OR BENT METAL...THANKS TO THE PIC, ACCIDENTAL, OR NOT......A MIRACLE. ATC PERFORMED GREAT, AS WELL. HATS ARE OFF. THE PILOT, LOW TIME SINGLE ENGINE LAND...PERFORMED GREAT....AMAZING.

    A ZERO TIME PIC....THE RESULTS WOULD BE DEADLY... STATISTICS. SORRY.

  • good fucking job dude. good fucking job.

  • Doing my King Air 350 (Pro-Line 21) conversion now with the RAAF. Previously flown PC9, Caribou, and C130H, plus a range of civvy twins, and I can tell you that the King Air is a handful for the first time, and that's for trained multi-engine pilots with a lot of hours (like myself). Now imagine having to fly this thing with your only experience being around 100 hours in a single engine aircraft, and you have your family on board. For what it's worth, hat's off to both pilot and controller.

  • MY OPPINON ONLY. EVEN THOUGH THIS PILOT WAS SINGLE ENGINE LAND, THIS AIRCRAFT CAN BE A HANDFULL FOR HIM. HE ASKED THE RIGHT QUESTIONS, SOMETHING A NON PILOT WOULD NEVER ASK. WITHOUT EXPERIENCE, THIS OUTCOME MOST LIKELY WOULD BE TRAGIC.....DESPITE THE GREAT EFFORTS OF ATC. THEY WERE AWESOME, THOUGH.

  • this guy is still a badass lol lucky yes but u gotta give him some credit

  • being a pilot is just awesome!!! :)

  • Cletus Corncraver: The pilot just died? Here hold my beer..

  • WHAT????? I call BS to a certain degree!!!!! Why did ATC tell him to go to ground??!! If that was so nerve wrecking and you touched down you want to stop in the middle of the runway and get off NOW!!! Maybe even kiss the ground.

    go to ground frequency HA HA for what to tell him it was all a joke???!!!!

  • @boramkiv if guy managed to land - he may as well clear or active runway:) if he would crash - this direction won't matter. Being a student pilot - i think this can be real. i may not know how to work controls of airliners, but show me gear, flaps, and throttle controls on smaller plane - and i'd give it a shot.

  • @boramkiv The guy had a private pilots license, a 172 and a kingair 200 are not the same thing :)

  • fly "American" planes, or fly euro-trash.

  • good job!

  • Check the worst 100 commercial Airplane disasters. Most are from Boeing planes. A far higher number then Airbus. Just look at the american made Cars. US cars are renowned around the world for their BAD quality. You should try to be more honest about this. Only Toyota now seems to have a worse image. That`s why European Cars are so popular. BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Audi, Saab, Renae, Fiat, Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini...etc..etc.. India just bought 180 Airbus planes worth 15 Billion.

  • @EuroSon99 thats because there are neatly 4 times the boeings out there....and they've been flying since the 1920's.......back when airbus was still shittin yellow.

    poor try at diggin at the US there kid.....maybe you shouldnt post anymore, you just make yourself look stupid.

  • "Check the worst 100 commercial Airplane disasters. Most are from Boeing planes." I honestly don't care about who makes what plane or whatever, but that's an incomparable statistic. You have to compare failure rates not total failures. If I make one airplane at home and it crashes on takeoff, that's only one crash, but my failure rate is 100%. If I make 5 million planes and 5 of them crash... well I'm sure you get the point.

  • @EuroSon99 yeah so is that why the 787 orders and 777 are so popular in Asia? Or why the 737 is the most used commercial aircraft on Earth? There are more Boeing crashes because, here it comes......THERE ARE WAY MORE BOEINGS IN THE SKIES!. Idiot. Just admit you're an America hater and we can move on.

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  • I've seen a longer version of this video somewhere.. At one point the man flying the plane states he's had some single engine experience, but nothing like this.

  • @TrueArsenic I also have seen that video. He said he had low time single engine exp

  • Pilot dies.

    Tower: "Is there anyone onboard who can fly a plane?"

    Me: "WHERE DO THEY KEEP THE FREAKIN' PARACHUTES ON THIS THING?!?!?!?!?"

  • puuuuusaaay

  • Must be scary flying something made in america.

  • @EuroSon99 Holy hell, the aircraft with the best safety record to date are made in the US. Geez, I dont have a name to call you. Maybe you should just not talk! Go Cessna!

  • @marco21falcon ermm...do some research, the aircraft with the best safety records are NOT made in the US

  • How did the pilot die? what's the cause of its occurrence?

  • He saved bird and people, respect.

  • awesome! this guy totally kept his act together...even if you have some flight experience (172, cherokee, etc) a king air is a totally different animal....I probably woulda taken a look around the cockpit and gone catatonic

  • @manifestgtr i agree dude king air is totally diff its a more complex cockpit also the flying is different it is faster etc so yh i take my hat off to this guy. I only flown 152 but i wouldn't be able to do what that guy did

  • I'm really impressed at how calm he remained. This guy is a hero.

  • I knew the pilot that died very well, having work for him at Legacy Aviation in 99' 2000' Col. Joe Cabuk was an insperation to all those around him. RIP Sir!

  • RIP the pilot

  • Man, I've got to learn how to fly a plane too. Ya never know when your pilot may just up and die.

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  • He sounds astonishingly calm. Nevertheless, his demeanor and performance were absolutely wondrous! Kudos

  • How did he die

  • I think he play FSX(Microsoft Flight Simulator X) before!

  • I'm amazed at how he managed it, knowning that the lives of a large number of people were at stake.

  • Except for the pilot dying, I bet this is every young flight simulator pilot's dream!!

  • @cometoanend sure is myn

  • @cometoanend Haha totally rite.

  • @cometoanend. Flight sim and piloting a real craft are hugely different. Flight sim does help with some basic things. But, take offs and landings are not easy in a real airplane, What do you do in a crosswind? Do you crab or sideslip? When do you flare in this particular craft if at all? There are tons of variables involved. No, sir, it would have been your nightmare if this had happened to you with only flight sim experience. You and your passengers would likely be dead.

  • fort MYERS!!!!

  • good thing the Lousiana man had flight experience, he sounded like he knew pretty much what he was doing, with control tower man helping him out ,GREAT JOB FOR BOTH OF THEM !!

  • when i touch down if i ever touch down, i just kill the throttle or what??? XD

  • SO FUCKING AMERICAN

    "me and the good lord are flying this plane"

  • @ParkerBlitz

    How brilliant of you to deduce that given the Southern accent and the map of Florida.

  • @plutonium9 it was a statement, calm down. 

  • @ParkerBlitz FUCK YOU PEPPER BELLY BASTURD 

  • @fishnmaster420 pepper belly? what does that even mean?

    and basturd? learn how to spell

  • @ParkerBlitz THIS IS NOT A SPELLING BEE PEPPER BELLY!!! LIKE I GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK OF MY SPELLING

  • @fishnmaster420 your caps lock key broken man?

  • @ParkerBlitz PEPPER BELLY,,,STOP TALKING TO ME...

  • it is like, SNAKE ON THE PLANE

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  • Sorry I forgot:

    This fellows is a REAL CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    He even made a very good radio-transmission with a very "cool" voice!

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Well done.

    If you have a PPLa and a "nice" fellow on ground i.e. in your ear

    you can manage it.

    We landed a 747 original simulator / 500 Euor/h from Lufthansa/FRA

    in HongKong and 40 minutes later in Alaska WITHOUT ENGINES i.e. with 0.0 jetpower. AND it worked. The trainer said: I never did this procedure with my Lufthansa fellwos, as it will normaly never happen that all four engines had a stall. He was happy too and proposed when we said cherio: Next year again ....... on airbus :-)

  • this guys is a champion!!!

  • I went through ground school with no airtime hours some years back. I'd like to believe that I could land a passenger plane if I needed to, except maybe behemoth jumbo jets.

    I'd still try if I had the most experience, but it might be a Ted Stryker landing.

    Where's Otto when you need him?

  • Impressive!!! Those who can, WILL-obviously the man has some experience-maybe in the military??? Still impressive.

  • A regular civilian would never ask for the winds on approach... Wouldn't know what a heading was and how to communicate with ATC the way this man did. He clearly had some flight experience. Probably as a Private Pilot which made flying a twin turbo prop a bit nerve racking, but nothing that a single engine pilot can't manage.

  • @theevilmeister exactly what I was thinking

  • @theevilmeister

    someone that is a aviation enthusiast would know to ask for wind all that stuff

    as he had some knowledge of flying

  • @theevilmeister This guy had some experience in a Cessna 172. This isn't the whole video but he tells the tower that he did have some flight experience.

  • @theevilmeister if you read the description you will notice that he DID have some flying experience...

  • @theevilmeister he flies single engine aircraft so he had some experience!

  • @theevilmeister Yeah, but that plane had *two* engines. It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether.

  • @theevilmeister Someone who takes a bit seriously any flight simulation program and its communications could do that, at least from my point of view

  • @Zeonvision How would you condition the props for landing? :)

  • @larsjake That depends on the plane we would be talking about, but in FSX I've found that at 80-90% it works just fine. Now, this is what I want to study at university, until then I'm just speculating, I've no idea

  • @Zeonvision Good for you, but like I said, a cessna is a trianer for the most part, do you condition props for cruise and landing on FSX? they leave a lot out on that game, although it is awesome to play! It is much more complicated to land a kingair.

  • i'm a regular civilian and have played enough flight sim games to ask for winds...

  • @YuTubeWeTube shut up you ass clown.

  • @theevilmeister Maybe he played a lot of FSX...LOL.....

  • @USMarineCorpsHUAR

    dont laugh, that stuff works!

    I have wrecked several 747's in an attempt to land at kennedy in nyc

  • @24preacherboy I Guess you are talking about FSX....I know FSX works,because im playing it by myself,but without crashing the 747.;-)

  • @USMarineCorpsHUAR I bet he did!

  • @USMarineCorpsHUAR I do the same, just in case... >_>

    By the way, I understood EVERYTHING they said in that conversation... =D

  • @USMarineCorpsHUAR haha the atc man sounds like the tutorial when you land at st martin

  • @USMarineCorpsHUAR Flight Simulator X is far from reality. This is coming from a real airline pilot. Not only me but all airline pilots. Only aircraft from the Precision Manuals Development Group are worthily and accurately comparable to real aircrafts.