When the captain of a Southwest flight had a medical emergency on Wednesday, an off-duty pilot from another airline on board stepped up to help.
The incident happened on Flight 6013, which took off at 6:33 a.m. from Las Vegas en route to Columbus, Ohio, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
Perry didn’t share any details about the captain’s health issue, but air traffic control audio from LiveATC.net captured a person saying that the pilot “became incapacitated” and needed to get in an ambulance immediately. The crew “calmly just would give us an update saying we’re going to go back to Las Vegas, we have a medical emergency on board,” McGlinchey told NBC News.
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