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Woman with No Flying Experience Successfully Lands Plane After Husband’s Mid-Flight Heart Attack

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In an extraordinary display of courage and quick thinking, a 69-year-old woman with no prior flying experience successfully landed a plane at a California airport after her pilot husband suffered a heart attack mid-flight. Yvonne Kinane-Wells was forced to take control of the propeller aircraft at an altitude of 5,900 feet, with her husband, 78-year-old Eliot Alper, incapacitated beside her. The couple, both real estate agents based in Las Vegas, were traveling from Henderson Executive …

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Mom of Three Fatally Struck by Landing Plane at Airport

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A tragic incident unfolded at a small airport in Oklahoma when a single mother of three was fatally hit by the wing of a landing plane while she was operating a lawn mower. The unfortunate event took place at Broken Bow Airport around 3:30 p.m. on Friday. Samantha Hayes, 27, was on the mower when a 1972 Beechcraft Bonanza A36 aircraft made its landing. The pilot of the plane, James Baxter, 70, spotted Hayes and …

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