Pilot Lands Plane With iPad App, Help Of TSA Agent After Electronics And Navigation System Malfunction
Posted in: Today's ChiliMoments after Raymond Cody took flight Tuesday morning, the instrument panel in his cockpit malfunctioned and his navigation system gave out. The pilot, who was flying a single-engine plane across western Colorado to Grand Junction Regional Airport, continued to head toward his original destination, but realized he had no way of notifying airport officials.
So he grabbed his cell phone and dialed the first number he could find for the airport: the Transportation Security Administration’s customer service hotline. Fortunately, with the help of a TSA agent and his iPad, the pilot was able to land the plane safely without his on-board electronics, according to The Daily Sentinel.
“The airplane motor wasn’t an issue of stopping, it was only the electronics in the airplane. So I had no radio, I had no navigation equipment,” Cody recalled to KREX-TV.
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