80-year-old woman lands plane after pilot husband falls unconscious, dies

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http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/ ... passes-out

WOW she did a great job!

Any landing where you can unbuckle, get up, walk to the rear, drop the stairs, and descend to the ground is a great landing...

I've NEVER been able to do all that... what am I doing wrong?

...well, the rest of us can only make *good* landings.

I love the comments on the MSNBC site....

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I got sick of the comments. Do people have no better things to do with there time then make stupid remarks and turn everything into a religious debate?

Thoughts and prayers to her and her family for their loss.

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AUDIO: Audio shows drama of elderly woman landing small plane;;; Wow you got to listen to this,,,

http://www.aviationinspector.com/?p=5290

Kind of drives home the need to expose the basics to your regular right seaters. Kudos to everyone that helped her through it and to her for keeping her cool.

This lady is my new hero. I heard her radio calls on the news last night. Gives a whole new meaning to calm, cool, and collected.

Amazing she did as well as she did. I can't imagine that landing that beast is like trying to flare a C-150 for the first time. I'd chip in to get her a PPL, she sure deserves it!

Grassstrippilot wrote:Kind of drives home the need to expose the basics to your regular right seaters. Kudos to everyone that helped her through it and to her for keeping her cool.

I'm glad she didn't go to Green Bay, too! The out come may have been different being that she was getting low on fuel at that point. Her friends and the other pilot did a great job of helping her out.

Most of us have probably never trained for a situation like this. But after lessening and learning what could be done better (don't get me wrong, they did an awesome job). On the first attempt to land might have been better to plan for a much longer turn to final (maybe a 3-5 mile final for that type plane??) to give lot's of time and room to make the adjustments for a safe landing the first try. But hey, she did walk away from the plane. Beat up a little, but still alive.

I wonder if any video will surface later on. I would like to see how she handled that plane on final when the engine stopped running. I always hear how those twins are when you lose and engine. Must of been a lot of heavy work for her? She's my hero, too!!