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Off-Duty Pilot From Another Airline Helps Land Southwest Plane After Captain Is ‘Incapacitated’

CABIN FEVER

Like a scene from a movie, the passenger heroically made their way to the flight deck.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

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A Southwest Airlines Co. Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft taxis to the maintenance area after landing at Midway International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., March 13, 2019.
Kamil Kraczynski/Reuters
Dan Ladden-Hall

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