Wife lands safely on Monterey-bound plane as pilot suffers medical emergency

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Beech 200 Super King Air, of a private company, prepares to land at Barcelona Airport, in Barcelona, ​​on February 10, 2022. — (Photo by Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) – The wife of a pilot who suffered a medical emergency returned to flying and managed to land the plane safely in California, authorities said.

The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that real estate broker Eliot Alper was flying a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air 90 with his wife, Yvonne Kinane-Wells, from Henderson, Nevada, en route to Monterey, California, on October 4, when he was incapacitated due to a medical examination. emergency.

Kinane-Wells took control and landed the plane with the help of air traffic controllers at Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California, the newspaper reported.

The newspaper reported that Alper later died. A person who answered the phone at Spacefinders and Ramrod Realty in Henderson confirmed the report but declined to give their name.

A report from the Federal Aviation Administration says a member of the flight crew died during the incident and there was only one other person, a passenger, on board.

Kern County firefighters were called to assist with the emergency landing.

Agency spokesman Jon Drucker said dispatchers received a call that the co-pilot was going to take over landing the plane, and firefighters followed the plane onto the runway and pursued him as he stopped.