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Mar 31, 2010 · Last year, Doug White took control of twin-engine plane after pilot died. White and his family were returning home from a funeral. A year later, they met flight experts who helped them land ...
Monroe, Louisiana resident Doug White successfully landed a King Air 200 twin-engine plane in Fort Myers in April when the pilot died after takeoff. White, 56, only had a pilots license for a single-engine plane and landed the aircraft with the help of air traffic controllers and a qualified King Air pilot via telephone. David Albers/Staff
Eighteen-year-old Maggie threw up. White, 56, landed the plane on his own about 30 minutes later, coaxed through the harrowing ordeal by air traffic controllers who described exactly how to bring ...
- Why Did The Real Doug White and His Family Charter A Private plane?
- What Did Doug White Do For A Living?
- Did Doug White's Wife, Terri, Try to Remove The Unconscious Pilot from His Seat?
- Was Doug White Instructed to Land The Plane in Fort Myers?
- Did Doug White Try to Put The Autopilot Back on at One Point?
- Is The Pilot Portrayed by Jesse Metcalfe Based on A Real person?
- Did Doug White Fly Into A Storm?
- Is Doug White's Family Religious?
- How Long Were Doug White and His Family in The Air After Their Pilot died?
- Did EMTs Try to Revive The Pilot After Doug White Safely Landed The plane?
Like in the Amazon Prime movie, the On a Wing and a Prayer true story confirms that Doug White, his wife Terri, and their two daughters, Bailey (16) and Maggie (18), had traveled to Marco Island in South Florida to attend the funeral for Doug's brother, Jeff, who had died from a heart attack. They chartered a private plane to fly them back to Monro...
As seen in the Amazon Prime Doug White movie, he was a Louisiana pharmacist. White had received a Doctor of Pharmacy from Northeast Louisiana University and eventually owned a pharmacy called Medi-shop in Mangham, Louisiana. His wife Terri was a competing pharmacist, which is how they met. Instead of continuing to operate as competitors, they merge...
Yes. Doug was concerned that the pilot's body might tip over onto the control yoke. In real life, the space was too small and his wife Terri and daughter Maggie couldn't move the 200-plus-pound pilot. Terri instead tried to pull his shoulder harness tighter to ensure he remained upright. Unlike what's seen in the On a Wing and a Prayer movie, the p...
Yes. Like in the Doug White movie, dozens of air traffic controllers hurried to reroute flights so that Fort Myers International Airport could accept the King Air that was now in the hands of White, a passenger. "You find me the longest, widest runway you can, ma'am," White told air traffic controller Lisa Grimm, who was an experienced pilot hersel...
Yes. In conducting our On a Wing and a Prayer fact-check, we learned that White did try to turn the plane's autopilot system back on. However, doing so started to steer the plane north toward the direction of Jackson, Mississippi, the destination that the deceased pilot, Joe Cabuk, had programmed into the system. -NBC News
Yes. As indicated in the On a Wing and a Prayer cast vs. real people section at the top of this article, Metcalfe's character, Kari Sorenson, is based on the real-life Danbury, Connecticut pilot and flight instructor who helped talk Doug White through landing the twin-engine plane. Like in the movie, Dan Favio, a developmental air traffic controlle...
No. The entire ordeal lasted about 50 minutes. The only significant turbulence that Doug White mentioned encountering in real life was when they took off and began to ascend through the clouds. At that point, their pilot, Joe Cabuk, was still alive and in control. In reality, Doug had blue and sunny skies during the ordeal. While landing at Fort My...
Yes. The White family attended the Forsythe Church of Christ in Monroe, Louisiana. It's true they did a lot of praying during their perilous situation on the plane. Not long after the pilot died, Doug turned to his family and said, "You all start praying hard." -NBC News "I mean, what could I do? Nothing, just sit there and pray and, you know, thro...
White and his family were in the air for approximately 30 minutes after their pilot fell unconscious from sudden cardiac death roughly 10 minutes after taking off. Their entire flight was not more than 50 minutes. The movie lengthens the flight a bit, in part by having White abort his first landing attempt due to a crosswind shifting the plane, whi...
Yes. Numerous emergency vehicles, including police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks, were waiting on the ground as Doug White safely landed the plane on the 12,000-foot-long Runway 6 at Fort Myers International Airport shortly after 2 p.m. on Easter Sunday 2009. Runway 6 at Fort Myers is unusually long because it had been used as a backup runway f...
Apr 16, 2009 · But White’s calm and poise led to a successful, lifesaving landing. Doug White’s company, White Equipment Leasing LLC of Archibald, Louisiana, is the registered owner of the King Air, N559DW.
Apr 10, 2023 · The Doug White story is recounted by the hero himself. He talks about his previous flight experience, the circumstances that had taken him and his family to Florida, and the perilous situation he found himself in after the pilot of their King Air 200 died suddenly. Doug White's recollection of his story provides far more detail than is shown in ...
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