“By the time I stopped the plane, that’s when it hit me. I was pretty calm and collected the whole time, because I knew it was a life-or-death situation,” recalls Darren Harrison. “Either you do what you have to do to control the situation or you’re gonna die. And that’s what I did.
An inexperienced passenger who landed a small plane in Florida after the pilot passed out has described the “life or death situation” he found himself in.
39-yr-old Darren Harrison, one of two passengers on the plane, told NBC News he had no time to panic and remained calm throughout the frightening scenario.
“Somebody asked me the other day what my heart rate was or what I thought my heart rate was when all of that was going on, and I said probably in the 90s. And they said, what about when it was all over. And I said it was probably 160,” he told NBC’s TODAY show.
“By the time I stopped the plane, that’s when it hit me,” he said.
“I was pretty calm and collected the whole time, because I knew it was a life-or-death situation.
“Either you do what you have to do to control the situation or you’re gonna die. And that’s what I did.”
The soon-to-be married dad, who was returning from a fishing trip to the Bahamas, also admitted he had nightmares about the same scenario before.
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