The following article, Pilot Suffers Deadly Medical Emergency in Midair, Forcing Passenger to Step In, was first published on another website.Flag And Cross.
A passenger aboard a small airplane safely landed in North Carolina Sunday after the pilot suffered a medical emergency and died.
The two were the only ones aboard the small Cirrus SR-20 when the tragic death occurred, WRAL-TV reported.
According to the news station, Joe Izatt was piloting the plane with another person who was not identified. Izatt was a professor at Duke University and was the chairman of the school’s Department of Biomedical Engineering.
After he fell unconscious while piloting the airplane, his passenger took over the controls, according to WRAL.
The person safely landed the plane at a secondary runway at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
The airport said the landing and Izatt’s death aboard the plane did not affect other air traffic.
The nature of Izatt’s medical emergency has not been disclosed. The plane he had been flying was registered to him as well as to a Raleigh-based private company called Coherent Aviation.
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