{"id":1493804,"date":"2022-05-26T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493804"},"modified":"2022-05-26T18:45:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T22:45:32","slug":"air-traffic-controllers-honored-for-helping-passenger-land-plane-in-fla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/air-traffic-controllers-honored-for-helping-passenger-land-plane-in-fla\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Traffic Controllers honored for helping Passenger land plane in Fla."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fair-traffic-controllers-honored-for-helping-passenger-land-plane-in-fla%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493804&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2393234\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FORT LAUDERDALE, FL \u2013 JULY 14: A Delta airlines plane is seen as it comes in for a landing at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on July 14, 2016 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN NEWSROOM<br \/>UPDATED 3:27 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, May 26, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>Several Florida residents were honored for their life saving actions to help land a small plane after the pilot suffered a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the group was acknowledged by Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center during a news conference. The group included air traffic controllers, medical doctors and passengers of the plane. Pilot Kenneth Allen was able to share his side of the story for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old pilot recalled the moment he lost consciousness while flying ten thousand feet above the Florida coast on May 10, forcing a passenger with no flying experience to take control of the plane.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cI remember telling Russ and Daren that I didn\u2019t feel well,\u201d Allen recalled. \u201cMy head was pounding and I was seeing little blue lights sparkling through here. They asked me what that means and I said I don\u2019t know, I have a really bad headache. Then I remember them poking me on the side of the arm saying \u201cstay with me, stay with me.\u201d That was it, I can\u2019t really recall anything until my guys over here were pulling me out of the airplane.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After Allen passed out the passenger later identified as Lakeland resident Darren Harrison, can be heard telling the air traffic controller he was not an experienced pilot and that he could tell he was facing the coast.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019ve got a serious situation here,\u201d Harrison said. \u201cMy pilot has gone incoherent. I have no idea how to fly the airplane.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harrison took control of the plane and managed to land at the Palm Beach International Airport with the help of air traffic control.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cI knew if I didn\u2019t react that we would die,\u201d he stated. \u201cI reached over his body because at this point he\u2019s unresponsive. I grabbed the controls of the airplane and slowly started to pull back on the stick and turn.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Both Harrison and the other passenger credited Air Traffic Controller Robert Morgan for safely guiding them to the landing strip. Allen reportedly suffered a torn aorta during the incident, a typically catastrophic injury, which the Doctor\u2019s who treated him asserted could\u2019ve just as easily ended his life.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a week after the operation Allen was up and about.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/calif-gov-newsom-vows-more-gun-control-after-texas-shooting\/\">Calif. Gov. Newsom Vows More Gun Control After Texas Shooting<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, FL \u2013 JULY 14: A Delta airlines plane is seen as it comes in for a landing at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on July 14, 2016 in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}