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

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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