Talk about flying blind.
The Irish Times is reporting that an air-traffic controller used SMS text messages to help an instrument-less pilot land safely.
When a twin-engined Piper aircraft lost power to all its avionics systems (electrical power, communications and weather radar) in a “serious incident,” the pilot used his mobile phone to call a nearby airport’s [...]
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Posted
Aug 11 2008, 07:34 PM
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