'Miracle' Landing: Florida Pilot Passes Out; Passenger with No Flight Experience Takes Over with 'Hand of God'

Tré Goins-Phillips : May 23, 2022
Faithwire.com

"...The last part of the prayer and the strongest part, was for the guy in the back, because I knew it was not a good situation." -Darren Harrison

[Faithwire.com] ...Pilot Kenneth Allen, 64, was flying a couple passengers in a single-engine airplane when he lost consciousness due to a tear in his aorta, a medical emergency that kills nearly half of all patients before they make it to the hospital... (Screengrab image)

..."[Allen] said, 'I've got a headache and I'm fuzzy and I just don't feel right,'" [passenger Darren] Harrison recalled during an interview with the Associated Press. "And I said, 'What do we need to do?' and at that point he didn't respond at all."

With that, the brave passenger climbed into the cockpit of the airplane, which was in a nosedive at that point.

"All I saw when I came up to the front was water out the right window and I knew it was coming quick," he said. "At that point, I knew if I didn't react, that we would die."

Harrison—whose wife Britney is seven months pregnant with their first child—pushed back against his instinct to yank the plane back up, confident such a sudden move would cause the plane to stall out.

"I also knew that at the rate we were going, we were going way too fast, and it would probably rip the wings off of the airplane," he added, calling that "the scariest part of the whole story"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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