Passenger Lands Plane - Pilot Incapacitation Cessna 208 Caravan, Florida.

UPDATE: Passenger who took over control was in the back! Also, his headset was unplugged and had to figure that out....see Today Show update, link above. Jb.

"Like a dog watching TV" I've never heard that one before, but it's a prefect analogy! I'm adding it to my repertoire.

I watched this on the news this morning. Cant believe he managed to get to the front seat during a 6500fpm dive. Apparently he has absolutely no flight experience and is a manager at an interior design firm. What a legend.

As the owner of a dog who loves watching TV, I fell out of my chair laughing. What a feel good story👏🏼

Unusual attitude recovery to say the least. Falling 6000+ feet per minute and to able to recover from that is a miracle in and of itself!

We know he has the makings of a Captain when he told them NO on the frequency change. Great job maintaining composure, that was key.

This passenger did a better job in this emergency situation than some licensed pilots have.

With all the garbage we are having to deal with right now, a feel good story like this is simply awesome!

Despite having no flying experience, Darren Harrison climbed over 3 rows of seats into the cockpit, moved the pilot out of his seat and scrambled to put on headphones and make contact with air traffic control — all as the plane was heading down.

My airline should offer this guy a job. We can’t get qualified pilots anyway, and this guy has great potential!!

Not a gamer, but I’ve watched many hours of blancolirio, Captain Joe, The flight channel, 74 gear and mentour pilot. There is a wealth of useful aviation information on YouTube ! !

A tremendous job by the passenger who managed to come from a back seat, get into the right seat, get the plane under control, and then to follow directions so well and to safely land the aircraft. But, even bigger kudos to ATC for giving such great directions that this guy was able to safely land. Probably there should be acknowledgement to Cessna for their design that helped make this all possible.

This story just gets more and more impressive.

This is an incredible story with a good ending. Getting into the front seat, getting the incapacitated pilot off the yoke, pulling that plane out of that dive and getting it stable and controlled is a tremendous feat in and of it self. I feel there is also some well deserved credit in the way he accomplished this by not just forcefully pulling back on the yoke and possibly exceeding the structural limits and taking the wings off at that speed and rate of descent. All in all a great job. I’d love to see some video of his landing.

Passenger sounded amazingly calm given that he'd just dropped 3000 feet and 300mph! Really impressive to recover the aircraft and then a great landing! Actually thought it was pretty dodgy of the ATC to try and get him to change frequencies - literally the only thing that was keeping him alive was that radio channel, if he messed it up he could have never gotten his communication back again. Was really good of him to just say NO!

Impressive all around! That glass-cockpit aspect does conjure one of my phobias. I've had enough strange experiences with GUI software that, if I had a nice useful flight/nav display on a screen in front of me, I'd be terrified of pushing some button that would put the display in a different mode from which I wouldn't know how to get back.

Great job by the passenger for not only the initial recovery but just keeping his head in the game and refusing to become overwhelmed and the entice ATC for thinking out of the box and even thinking of cell phones.

One of the most impressive things is that the passenger keep his wits about him. I suspect that having a second passenger may have made all the difference. Trying to get the pilot from leaning on the controls while at the same time trying to figure out how to recover the controls might have proved impossible.

I am very, very impressed by the passenger pilot. He did an amazing job. Not only did he manage to recover the aircraft from the steep descent, but he also prioritized to fly the aircraft in stead of searching for specific buttons on the panel. I agree with Juan; the G1000 is not easy if you don't have any experience with it. Even if you fly airliners with glass cockpit.

The truly impressive thing about the upset recovery is that he didn't rip the wings off; the Caravan's Vne is only 175 knots. Good thing it was a Caravan. Cessna built a gentle, robust Beast designed to be flown by low time pilots. Easy to operate, over built, and forgiving.