{"id":2021,"date":"2023-03-30T21:54:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T21:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2023-03-30T21:54:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T21:54:28","slug":"pilot-finds-himself-in-trouble-but-his-message-for-air-traffic-controller-is-hilarious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/pilot-finds-himself-in-trouble-but-his-message-for-air-traffic-controller-is-hilarious\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot finds himself in trouble, but his message for air traffic controller is hilarious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An air traffic control tower suddenly lost communication with a small twin engine aircraft. A moment later the tower landline rang and was answered by one of the employees.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger riding with the pilot who lost communications was on a cellular phone. He yelled, \u201cMayday, mayday!! The pilot had an instant and fatal heart attack. I grabbed his cell phone out of his pocket and he had told me before we took off he had the tower on his speed dial memory. I am flying upsid<\/p>\n<p>The employee in the tower immediately put him on speaker phone.<br \/>\n\u201cCalm down, we acknowledge you and we\u2019ll guide you down after a few questions. The first thing is not to panic, remain calm!\u201d<br \/>\nHe then began his series of questions:<br \/>\nTower: \u201cHow do you know you are traveling at 18,000 feet??\u201d<br \/>\nAircraft: \u201cI can see that it reads 18,000 feet on the Altimeter dial in front of me.\u201d<br \/>\nTower: \u201cOkay, that\u2019s good, remain calm. How do you know you\u2019re traveling at 180 mph?\u201d<br \/>\nAircraft: \u201cI can see that it reads 180 mph on the Airspeed dial in front of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>Tower: \u201cOkay, this is great so far, but it\u2019s heavily overcast, so how do you know you\u2019re flying upside down?\u201d<br \/>\nAircraft: \u201cThe shit in my pants is running out of my shirt collar.\u201d<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An air traffic control tower suddenly lost communication with a small twin engine aircraft. A moment later the tower landline rang and was answered by one of the employees. The passenger riding with the pilot who lost communications was on a cellular phone. He yelled, \u201cMayday, mayday!! The pilot had an instant and fatal heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}