Nice video about an emergency

Just stumbled upon this video.
A passenger with minimal flight experience in a 172 landing a King Air at Fort Myers because his pilot sadly died shortly after takeoff.
The video is a reconstruction of the events based on radar data and all the audio.

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Best line in the whole video, “What taxiway you want pard?”

Awesome video.

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These things, or very similar, happen more than ppl realize. Not often but it’s not unusual either.

EDIT: And the shear amount of coordination going on behind the scenes (off radio) that you can’t hear can be a little ‘terse’.