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Student pilot forced to make an emergency landing
    2019-09-03  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A STUDENT pilot has made a dramatic emergency landing at Perth’s Jandakot Airport during his first lesson in a two-seater aircraft after his instructor collapsed mid-flight.

Max Sylvester, who is in his 30s, called air traffic control just over an hour into his lesson Saturday afternoon after realizing he was alone at the controls of the small Cessna.

“He’s leaning over my shoulder, I’m trying to keep him up but he keeps falling down,” Sylvester told the controller.

It was Sylvester’s first lesson as his wife and three children watched him from the ground.

The air traffic operator kept the trainee calm as he talked him through an emergency landing.

“Do you know how to operate the airplane?” the operator asked.

“This is my first lesson,” Sylvester told him.

“You’re doing a really great job. I know this is really stressful. But you’re going to do an amazing job and we’re going to help you get down to the ground, OK?”

The controller explained to Sylvester how to reduce the plane’s speed, and encouraged him to focus on landing the plane and reinforces that he is doing well.

He finally landed safely after nearly an hour.

His New Zealand-born instructor, Robert Mollard, is in a stable condition in hospital.

Chuck McElwee, owner and operator of Air Australia International, which employs the pilot, said he had not witnessed a situation like it in his 28 years running the flying school.

Sylvester received his first flying solo certificate, although McElwee admitted it was probably not the maiden solo flight he had been expecting.

(SD-Agencies)

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