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                    [Title] => Plane with dead pilot steered  to safety
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A passenger of a private plane managed to bring down the plane safely on waters
near a Batangas beach yesterday after the pilot died of a heart attack,
aviation officials said.

The passenger turned instant pilot, Victor Consunji, received instructions over
the plane's radio from the pilot of a passing Asian Spirit plane on how to
operate the instruments of the distressed Cessna 206 plane.

"It's as if it happened in the movies," said Rolando Luna, executive director
of the Air Transportation Office (ATO).
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-02-29 00:00:00
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Plane with dead pilot steered to safety

February 29, 2000 - 12:00am

A passenger of a private plane managed to bring down the plane safely on waters near a Batangas beach yesterday after the pilot died of a heart attack, aviation officials said. The passenger turned instant pilot,...

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