On Saturday April 9 above Plouhinec, in Morbihan, a pilot suffered a cardiac arrest in mid-flight. The passenger took control and escaped almost unscathed.
A real disaster was avoided in Morbihan on Saturday April 9th. In fact, the pilot of a private plane suffered a cardiac arrest in mid-flightreports West France. The passenger in the plane was forced to take control of the aircraft. Note thatshe has never flown an airplane of his life. This narrowly avoided a crash on homes, according to the media.
It was around 10 a.m. that the aircraft left the civilian airport of Lann-Bihoué, in Plœmeur, to reach Quiberon. Only two people were on board the plane : the pilot, a 65-year-old man, and a 35-year-old passenger. After only 30 minutes of flight, the man suffered a cardiac arrest before losing consciousness. Taking orders, the woman avoided the crash of the device in the town of Plouhinec. It is in a marshy area around the town that the device crashed.
She survived and the pilot died
The crash zone was difficult to access. What required the intervention of French Navy aircraft. If the pilot is dead when help arrives, the passenger was not injured. A situation far from worldly. She was in shock when she was sent to the Scorff hospital center in Lorient, according to West France. “She is practically unscathed”, said AFP the CODIS of Morbihan. A joint investigation was opened by the Brest air transport gendarmerie brigade and the Port-Louis brigade.
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