Controller Gives Pilot Terrible News 

It's strange that he put a Cessna up for Maggie. We can clearly see in the pictures that it's a Piper

Any idea what lead to landing gear to fall off? Enough student pilots landing hard and following tress fractures?

Glad to hear that Maggie is still flying.

I’m at the beginning of the video and you gave me the courage to keep going.

she flew 5 days later, not weeks. She is pretty hard core

Even if expected, that could be real hard to spot! Miraculous catch!

Yeah if he hadn't reported it she would have just gone ahead and been caught unaware upon landing.

Well.. is there something else that you would do when you spot parts falling off of a plane during take off? I'll just have a cup of coffee, I don't feel like mentioning it to anyone.. lol. So, yes, it would be an expectation. I can't imagine a normal human being doing anything else but calling attention to it immediately.

@@cantfindmykeys I watch a lot of forensic crime documentaries and it's overwhelmingly common in a way you wouldn't believe how many people will not call the police if they hear men and women screaming in terror and agony for help because they're actively getting shot and stabbed to death. They're not afraid of the killer coming after them. They just go eh, no big deal. And I mean in nice neighborhoods too. Happens all the time. So yeah, people not calling this kinda thing in wouldn't surprise me in the least. 😕

@@Veldrusara I agree, I watch many of those documentaries, too. I think it's different when it comes to "disaster" stuff. The mentality switches to sensationalism. Omg! Fire! Avalanche! Tsunami! Train wreck! Bridge collapse! Look look look! You know what I mean. On the other hand, when it comes to someone screaming bloody murder, people are desensitized. Or "don't want to get involved" because I hear screaming all day long for no good reason other than idiots making unnecessary noise. After a while you tune it out. Unfortunately. Because every so often the cry for help is genuine. Most people will react to another human in distress or danger. It's just when the crisis is uncertain that they seem to disregard it as another false alarm. But they sure love to blow the whistle when they think a ship is going to sink. Or a plane might crash.

Yeah, for the very first moment I was like oh no, she’s freaking out. (not that I blame her at all. I probably never would’ve gotten into another plane again.) but they helped her with a bit of nurturing, and then that was great that the gentleman she was used to working with, and had trust in already was able to be there to help talk her down. And she calmed down very quickly. Kudos to her and her parents. And her instructors. And that nice ATC lady at the beginning!!

Imagine if Tom Hanks had been the controller. "There's no crying in aviation!"

That Controller had that Mom tone. She lowered that stress instantly with the way she was talking to her.

Right, I'm straight up crying

Controller mode was the only thing necessary. Not talking to her like a helpless baby and making her feel powerless and start crying. I guess you don't know about the 17 girl that crash landed in mountains and flipped over in Wyoming and didn't have anyone helping her escape a box canyon. She survived with no communication in the middle of nowhere. Minus babytalk, too.

@@cantfindmykeys Dang who shit in your Cheerios this morning?

@@Benjamin-1776- lol, nobody. I don't eat cereal. Have a wonderful day!

@@cantfindmykeys wow you sound like a delightful human being... 🫤

@@parahive4067 lol, not sure if you are being sincere or not but either way.. cheers!

The audio on this clip was her instructor, not the ATC controller.

@@elkhunter8664 The first part, with the female, was the controller.

It was both.

@@cenccenc946 YES IT WAS!!!!! GREAT JOB TO BOTH!

I think everyone did a fantastic job there for sure...

Someone pour Maggie a dram glass to calm her!! (Bluegrass reference)

A pint? Or large glass 😹😹😁

@@karenlabuschagne5712 a mega-pint!

@@karenlabuschagne5712 I'm a hillbilly. Let's get her a demijohn full!!!

Yeah, you could hear her change in tone almost immediately when she heard it was a solo student pilot...

Exeactly my thoughts…

Ditto

I concur. I’ll never forget my daughters first solo flight at age 15 or 16, as I stood on the ground and kept talking to the instructor standing right next to me, just to keep my nerves clear of freaking out for panic. He said she was so 100% procedural, he wouldn’t be anxious at all, so I was able to stay sort of calm. Now that I hear this broken “okay” I must say I freak out ex post. Thank god all went well with that girl, and thank god my girl had never such a situation. Woah!

Add this. Her mom and dad, both pilots, were watching from the ground. Kudos to everyone involved. You can breath again.

Not a mother or grandmother but will confirm. As a human, I too forget how to breathe for a moment whenever I hear her voice break. 💔

I know! I wanted to give her a hug 🥺

Same... 🥲

Same here. My heart broke hearing how scared that poor young lady was.

@@arihasy just showed how a little positive reinforcement can change the situation drastically. He did practically huge her with his voice. Even I felt it.

I got through that first "okay" just fine. The second "okay" made my eyes sweat.

When her voice started to initially crack my eyes got watery ngl. What a way to calm the nerves and bring it in.

Personally, this is not how I want to spend my 15 minutes of fame, lol...

When a women or especially a girl got scared, shaken nearly crying it's shakes men, i got my eyes watery also.

@@Backroad_Junkie Haha I hear you but come on man, at that point all you do to calm down once is ask yourself how bad can it get? Worst scenario, the plane goes on a little excursion but it became the insurance company's plane soon as you took off so that's not your concern anymore 😂

Isn't she the Maggie from "viral debrief", in the video "Maggie's first prop strike"?

Oh, they have just as many politics and strife's as society and other institutions, but they have a referee that has all control. FAA

it does cross my mind that hard landings broke that landing gear

I'm a grown-ass man, too -- and the first time I heard this (from VASAviation) I had exactly the same reaction (tears and a lump in my throat) and did again with Kelsey's entry. Maybe even a bit more because I'm from Massachusetts, and I have a daughter... This is my favorite aviation RU-vid of them all so far (sorry Kelsey @74 Gear! But I do *love* your channel) -- it shows things Kelsey stresses all the time -- teamwork, how ATC is there to help you, first fly the airplane, back to basics, etc.). I think I posted a while ago asking Kelsey to react to the VASAviation RU-vid; I'm so glad he did. Man, I've heard this many times, and the terrified "okays" and the controller going into Mom mode (or Dad mode, because I would have done the same thing -- let's call it "compassion and situational awareness mode") still hits me in some primordial way.

Same

Dude... I'm 37, 6'2", 290lbs, 10" beard, no kids... and yet that voice at the beginning and end is really getting me in the feels. Dang allergies.

​@@thBarkingSpider haha, yeah. It was so poignant and heartbreaking that I'm sure a lot of grown-ass men got the feels! Luckily everything turned out alright. Thanks.

Her voice made me want to give her a hug and tell her that everything’s going to be fine.

The instructor went full on Dad Mode and it's adorable

and the controller too, the controller I thought handled that well straight away realizing what was going on

I'm assuming part of that was also time passing by that was cut out from the recording for the video. By which I don't mean to diminish the good job everyone did!

Agreed, the way the pilot's voice calmed down at that point was amazing. I'm guessing just the fact that he's a familiar voice and can say stuff like "We're going to do what we've always done before, OK?" will have helped immensely.

@@margotrosendorn6371 That's what I was thinking about the Controller. She sounded as much like a Mom as a Controller.

Actually, what happened was the mommy voice made the girl switch to helpless baby mode. It would have been much more effective to keep a calm, steady, authoritative voice. Let her know that she can handle the situation and you are there to assist her and she is your priority. And not make her circle the airport 9 times or whatever ridiculous loopy nonsense they put her through. All she wanted to do was get that plane down. Instead they kept her in a state of suspense for what must have seemed like an eternity, waiting to land. Let the other planes wait and get her on the ground, I say.

@@cantfindmykeys having her circling around is routine flying. It gives her time to calm down, get her back into the right mindset. It also gives the people on the ground some time to go over options. The last thing you need is her landing that plane right now, while still panicking. They want her to calm down and mentally treat it as “normal flying as usual”.

@@lordinquisitor6651 Yes, but that many times? I was on a plane once that couldn't lower the landing gear and we kept circling and it was horrible. I didn't care if we had to land on the belly, I just wanted off that thing asap. Anyway, she did need time to snap out of it after that woman talked to her like she was helpless. That just made it worse. She wasn't about to cry until that happened.

@@cantfindmykeys and that, see, is why she's a pilot and you aren't

@ how do you know what I am or am not? You don't know me. I have flown small planes but I don't have a valid license. Anything else you want to take an uninformed wild guess about? My hobbies? My degrees? My pets? My pet peeves? My ability to not be presumptuous and make false statements based on diddly squat? Go ahead.

God bless her

Most of them are, yes.

Yes. She did an amazing job

Yeah. It's like a doctor when you go in for surgery, I always love it when they make you cry and get all emotional. She made her cry. not good.

@@mynameisgladiator1933 She was already crying

She certainly got some serious experience from this incident. Not the most comfortable way to gain experience, but she has proven to herself, that she is able to calm herself, instead of going into a full-blown panic. And that she can handle the plane even when she is in a scary situation. Thumbs up! 👍 Might have gotten a seed of mistrust on service personnel, though. 😄

My luck bag (from truck driving) has been empty for quite a while and I've only been driving for 2 years. That said, I'm all out of luck and I don't have a lot of experience. Although, when I get problems, they're usually not so severe I might not make it out alive. It can just get really expensive for the company.

I believe a male controller would have been also good enough

You don't need to be parent to be protective & kind though. I don't have children & i would have done the exact same thing

@@IzzyOnTheMove True. It seems to me that, just because the initial controller was a woman, that Kelsey went to the "mothering" trope. I'm not saying Kelsey's wrong, but it's not about mothering. It's about being a good controller. I hope that any controller, male or female, parent or not, would go into the caring, calming mode, because it's the best way to get help get the pilot down safely.

What a great comment! He has excellent communication skills & positivity!

Agreed

Thats good you do that. People in an emergency, especially one that could result in injury or loss of life, are definitely not thinking "professional". Professionalism can pick up again once everyone is safe

You did what would and should be expected of ATC. I'll still give you heaps of praise and props for it! If only politicians would work by the same code!

HI, I'm mamma Bear, meet my cub!

Absolutely, have to agree. Screw the plane, you can buy another, more important that the pilot/people make it.

She's been accepted to "Top Gun" Class of 2025.

this is very nice

Awesome!

Wow. sounds like you had a great time bud :)

And yet Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus (pbuh) Prophet Jesus (pbuh) would be shocked that his people and followers made totally a new religion after he was gone , taken away to the heaven. Sad real sad

ya I don't think you will be forgetting that experience anytime soon!! haha, probably about as traumatic as my solo was, I won't be forgetting that anytime soon

I had just gotten my SEL Certificate and had an instrument panel fire. Thank God I was turning base when it happened.

@@auburn886 Yikes! Fire anywhere it shouldn't be is no bueno but on a plane? Too scary.

@@BeeWhistler still better than having it in the air, idk how anyone can keep calm if it happen mid-air.

I can totally relate to your story, mate. Happened to me 32 years ago, around 10 or 12 hours (just before my first solo), when the solo engine gradually faded away. Slowly enough though to ensure enough power for a large left turn to get back to the airdrome. The fact that we were the only plane flying there at that moment and the grass airdrome (no runways) made the landing very easy. But the amount of stress I felt then...was intense. :)

Keep in mind she's 17!

Why is she scared. Smh. She needs to grow up.

@@theenzoferrari458 Lmao, so you're telling me at 17 and brand new flying you wouldn't be scared when your landing gear fell off? You're lying thru your teeth.

@@JCrook1028 I bet you the comenter above you would've been scared for his life if he was a pilot on board UPS flight 6 in the Co pilots position no captain lower deck on fire no controls of the aircraft landing gears won't go down smock entering the cockpit Damm.

@@JCrook1028 That is clearly a troll and it is best to ignore them completely

The instructor sound just like Mike Fransesca.

And his voice is familiar :)

This! This! This!

but also you can hear the talk between the lines. at first she tells him what she's going to do. as a normal student she's trying to show him she knows what to do next. And then he tells her what to do. he is basically saying: you don't even have to think about it, you're going to just listen to me and do what i say. which is reassuring in that moment; i'm sure. dhr may think: usually we go through everything with me second-guessing myself and seeing if you go into a panic, but this time you're just going to tell me what to do. they never had to actually say those things, but you can hear that that's what they were saying.

Meanwhile, he’s having an internal freak out. Calm and collected outwardly, holding the freak at bay.

When she heard John, you could hear her confidence come back

That’s what I was thinking, too. Why complicate the already stressful situation by asking something different of her than what she’s used to? In all likelihood, the plane was going off the runway to the right, anyway. Also, who cares? At that point, it would be slow enough to walk away from whether it ended up on pavement or grass. Let insurance deal with the plane after the wreck, but make sure the occupants walk away. I feel that having her do every last thing as close to what she was used to as possible was probably the best way to ensure the best and most survivable outcome.

Having her focus on the center line during landing helped keep her focused.

I also agree with the instructor and disagree with Kelsey on the left. As you already said, she is used to it, and to keep it simple. Also, as the instructor said: normal landing. That center line is all she have to focus on, and is a nice path to follow. Less mental stress.

Great intuition

I'd think that landing centerline would be safer in case she overcorrected to the left too

Well, thank God we already know that she persevered in her well, whether it’s her chosen field of work, or for pleasure. But I can see how it would either do what you said or make someone decided to hang up there pilots hat. Chances are if you’re brave enough to be a pilot in the first place, it’s gonna be what you said. But potential PTSD can be a funny thing. Not in the ha ha way either.

Yep, it would've been a barf bag because I think my lunch would've come back up.

hahaha!

They actually were on the ground watching all of this.

Saw this on a different channel over a year ago. Her father was in the comments: Yes, she continued flying and he was very proud of her! Just like all of us are.

I agree, considering her age and inexperience, the pilot did a super job. She may be a student pilot, but she is also a veteran of an emergency.

Me too 😊 Great job girl 😊

She was back at it in a matter of weeks. Both parents are Air Force pilots.

If the controller needs to be like a babysitter, maybe the pilot should not be flying solo just yet. Curious what went wrong on the pre flight inspection.

@@Cloxxki It was the controller's choice to do that, they are trained to assist pilots in difficulty. It's their job. The pilot landed a plane without one of its mains, while talking herself through a respectable landing... After 30 hours experience. It was perfect timing for her to fly solo, and she showed how well she can handle herself under extreme pressure. Great young pilot!

@@Cloxxki shit happens. You can do a preflight but that doesn't stop random things like a wheel falling off from happening.

Or to add some who had propeller fly forward as come off while in the air

Would have been better if they didn't send her spinning circles around the airport. When someone gives me the mommy will make everything ok treatment, it doesn't make me stronger. It has the opposite effect. You can hear in the girl's voice that's exactly what happens. Be calm, steady voice, focus on me. That's what you need. Not a mommy.

it's not brilliant, luck isn't something that runs out, simply gamblers fallacy bs.

@@doltBmBIf you rely on luck, you will indeed eventually run out. You just don't know when that will be.

@@jijonbreaker it is entirely possible to get lucky with luck, some people may rarely or ever get unlucky

@@doltBmBPlease just stop talking.

@@jijonbreaker you can't predict what will happen, that's what luck is, you may never "run out", or you may never win. both are possible.

Same

Same! Nice to know we still have some feelings left.

Absolutely!

Me too. Every time. I think I actually sobbed the first time, and couldn't properly see the monitor for all the water... @Morbid Man Music: Yeah, it is certainly good to know, that we are not made of stone.

Agree with all of you.

Exactly!

I would go a bit further. I would give him some rights followed by some lefts and vice versa

I'd be cautious to jump to any conclusions. These flight school planes probably receive more hard landings than any other type in existence. While it's possible something was missed by the A&P, it's also possible the damage happened between inspections. Ultimately, it's the pilot who's responsible to be sure their plane is airworthy prior to each flight.

@@Phyde4ux Perhaps training aircraft should have some sort of indicators on the landing gear that would show a red flag if they might have been overstressed? They're commonly used on packages to detect mishandling so they can't be too expensive.

@@Phyde4ux if it was broken bolts or stress fractures, it might not have been evident with a quick walk-around inspection.

That's exactly what I was thinking the whole video...

What was he supposed to do? Have a cup of coffee and ignore it? lol, c'mon. Please. Eh, no big deal, I won't bother to mention that pieces just fell of that plane.

You’re right, his voice sounded just like Howard’s!

ok whattttt...i`m a expert of identifying voices ..this guy sounds as much as howard stern as you sound like a donald duck quacking

@@thecoondog56 I'm an expert at identifying liars.

❤​ she's calm and collected and a plus listening to her untrustworthy. MADE the best of a bad situation🎉 GREAT JOB MAGGIE

I'm not so sure on the first part as you can hear some stress in her voice already when she responds to the controller calling "Warrior 2496X, Tower". I think she definitely knew something was wrong already, might be that she heard it, but more likely she felt the plane react to the sudden shift in it's centre of gravity. She may not have known yet exactly what problem she had, but the change in her voice between reading back the take-off clearance and the controller calling to give her the pyrep from the Waco she knew something had gone wrong. She might have mistaken it for a control issue at first if she didn't hear anything and thus only knew the plane developed a tendency to roll and yaw to the left, which it would as the weight imbalance would cause the former and the drag imbalance the latter. So there is a good chance that when she began troubleshooting that which would have included reporting the issue to the controller that possibly would have led to considering the option of a low approach to overfly the runway for an external visual check by the tower. That would be a fairly normal thing to consider in the case of a sudden change in the aerodynamic performance of the aircraft like that, damage to the airframe, flight surfaces, or control surfaces are all suspects here. Thus where the conditions permit a visual check from the tower would be advisable as that could potentially identify the true nature of the problem and thus arm you to deal with said problem.

@@seraphina985 Nice analysis but it was a lot more simple. She heard on the tower frequency the WACO aircraft report that a wheel had fallen off. Right away she knew she was missing a wheel. I’ve got the ATC-Live app on my phone and was listening to the tower stream the day before and knew her voice before the gear incident.

>Had the Waco not seen the wheel drop Maggie would have been unaware - during the landing That wouldn't be the worst thing. If she never knew about the problem she would have landed normally and calmly, The plane was going to lose control once it touched down either way. It would be a hell of a shock to her, but she'd be on the ground at least.

@@robertmcglinchey3347 Also, how often is it that the tower is calling you RIGHT after your takeoff.

Kudos to Captain Maggie!

I don't have any kids, just nieces and nephews, but by God, that crying Okay just about tore me up. It's only my faith that Kelsey wouldn't try to profit off of a horrible tragedy that allowed me to finish the video.

That got me as well. I really tear up watching this video.

I think i would invite he instructor and atc to a nice dinner for helping me.

I first heard this audio right when my 17yo daughter went away for the summer to flight school. Man, that was hard. The entire time my daughter was up in the air on her solo I was hearing this exchange in my head - and I couldn’t be there 😬. It actually helped to hear the ATC and instructor and how helpful they were. My daughter came home a pilot and had SO many stories of how the KECG controllers became her family that summer. She still misses them a year later ❤️

@@kevinmencer3782 exactly the same for me

Link?

That wasn’t actually this flight they just over played the audio

Aye. We do!

glad you enjoyed it HSBVT

My feelings exactly!!

@@74gear as someone who never flown, I especially appreciated your explanations of what was going on, when it was going on. I would love to learn to pilot, but as a senior on disability, that’s probably not in my future. But still, I clicked on this video, and was very glad I did, I certainly will encourage any interested grandchild to get their pilot license. Thanks again. I didn’t click on this to be entertained but to learn something and I certainly did. Have a good day. 😊

I thought being father to a daughter was the cause for this, because I had the same reaction. I couldn’t stop thinking it was my little girl facing the same situation. Bravo for Maggie for doing a great job and getting safely to the ground.

Something tells me, if the student was male, the instructions wouldn't have been as tender. Probably would have bitched to him why he didn't check the WHEELS during a pre-flight inspection.

Me too

@@sethk1698 That would be sexist. There is no reason her being female makes her any less capable of handling the situation than if she were male and she shouldn't be treated differently because of her Gender. The point is that she was very inexperienced, which would have been exactly the same situation if it had been a male pilot.

... and the next time in the future something goes wrong, she has this to think back to and go, "Meh, whatever, we've done this before, we'll just do it again".

There’s a video clip from news coverage of this event, and they show she was right back up in the air a few days later!

@@erich930 that's great to hear! I was wondering if she would decide against aviation or not after this early experience, so I'm glad to hear she was able to keep going :)

Did you really cry?

@@3ducs Yes. Is it a problem for you that I have compassion and empathy for others? Hearing that young woman sounding so scared and overwhelmed struck me as if she was my own child. What the hell are you scared about?

My feelings too. I'd say that if anything, she's topped up her luck bag rather than running it down at all. And as for the experience bag, what better validation is there that you've got what it takes than walking away unscathed from such an emergency so early in your training? This isn't a nebulous "what if" situation for her anymore. Now she knows she can handle it.

Yes, and he wasn't talking to her like she was a baby. He had the right You Can Do This attitude. So she became more confident and stopped being on the verge of tears which doesn't help the situation. If only they didn't keep her flying in circles forever.. what was it? Nine loops around the airport or something that ridiculous. That's like waiting for someone to pull your tooth. And waiting. And waiting. Ugh.

How in the WORLD does a wheel fall off? Should be impossible and hopefully they make sure no more just drop off these planes. This is ridiculous!

@@baneverything5580 you know the ntsb showed up the next day. this was the Happy Ending for the pilot vid, not the fatality/wreck vid sad one.

@@baneverything5580 Answer! People are prone to make mistakes! It's why people inspired governments wind failing & killing people by the millions, vs a Creator inspired government, as we [Once] had!

@@em1osmurf Don't you just love it that no Gov. agency's "show up" & investigate the 250,000 to 800,000 annual "medicine" caused/ [leading cause of death] Iatrogenic deaths? see. the Johns Hopkins [low-ball] iatrogenic study , then the well documented book, Death by Medicine by Dr. Null! (Check it out!)

@@em1osmurf oh yeah I bet a team was grabbing their gear almost as soon as that wheel came off.

That's pretty much the only route in aviation. Failure is usually death.

Excellent job by everybody !!! I'm so glad she wasn't hurt.

Plus, if she landed left and gave too much left rudder, it could have easily taken her off the left side of the runway before slowing down as much, risking greater damage/injury. You're right, this wasn't a time to try new things unnecessarily. It was a time to keep everything as normal as possible.

Even the way the instructor worded things was fantastic. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing with every phrase. I have a ton of respect for him and she obviously did as well. Kudos to the whole team that brought her back down safely! Excellent job on Maggie's part to rise up to the situation and deal with it like true pilot.

Yes good point.

This. Keep your expectations. This is how and why we train like we do. Anyone can 'point & shoot'; being a *pilot* is knowing what to do when things go wrong. Absotively posilutely what I'd expect from a good CFI *and* a good student. Effin' dusty air again!

Yes, exactly. He handled it perfectly, giving her confidence. Not talking to her as if she was a helpless baby and making her break down nearly in tears. It would have helped if they cleared her to land right away instead of making her loop in nine circles around the airport. In spite of that, she landed. Because she had the training and skills. Not because someone did the mommy routine. That would've messed me up. Better to say You got this. You will get your plane down just fine and we are standing by.

@@cantfindmykeys flying in circles is routine flying. It gave her time to calm down and get mentally ready to proceed. It also gave the tower personnell and the instructor time to talk over options. Plane is flying, the only issue is if it can be landed in a survivable way. You don't rush into it if you can do it slowly and deliberately.

Fuck "the lord". Your "lord" had absolutely nothing to do with this. what is it with you people and undermining the amazing feats of humanity and crediting "the lord" with everything from start to finish? Thank the ATC, her flight instructor and Maggie herself instead, give them the credit for an amazing job. Let's all "thank the lord" when babies get cancer or when genocide occurs as well, cause it's "the lords way", right? Delusional. @breadandcircuses8127

The first being: your plane is on fire

Would think ATC saying I am sure you had two wings now you only have one would be worse

The first being "When you're ready I have a number for you to call"

@@simonupton-millard "Jot down this number. Give me a call when you get parked."

@@badlandskid agreed that is worse

100% after this normal flying is going to be boring for her haha... which is what most pilots are looking for... nice and boring!

@@74gear About 35 years ago I heard about a man at a grocery store buying some food. He had all sorts of foreign money in his pocket and kept looking for US Money.... He apologized for the delay saying that he had just gotten back to the US after flying to a few countries across the Pacific as an Airline Pilot. The cashier said: "That must be exciting!" His answer was: "Not if I do my job right..."

@@timengineman2nd714 I was a truck driver for many years. Drivers and Pilots have a lot in common. Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of terror. I always said: “Excitement is bad, it means something went wrong…”

after this, shes ready for carrier landing, since those are controled cashes. not trying to said anything wrong, just that those are realy hard

wow! Great start of a career :D

I remember that. It was a bit like Chuck Norris jokes, only for aviation. She's quite the legend. 🙂

That is cool! 😄

Losing a wheel will make any pilot nervous, never mind a student on her first solo cross country trip.

She was. And it was because of the babytalk. It made her feel helpless instead of confident that she could handle it. It's not always the best thing to coddle somebody. Better if they sense that you believe in their abilities and they can do it.

​@cantfindmykeys What? That makes no sense at all. All the ground personnel, from the ATC operator to her flight instructor said and the right things for the situation. There was no baby talk there, that's absurd. What they did was help that young woman believe in herself and land the plane.

​@@cantfindmykeysi didnt hear any baby talk from either ATC or her instructor. Nurturing / supporting is not the same as baby talk. Obviously, hearing her instructor calmed her more than anything, but the ATC woman did a great job. Personally, if i was in that pilot's situation, I would have been very grateful for people keeping their instructions very simple, so as to not overload me.

@@padmelotus ok so join my fan club. I just listened to the conversation between atc and a young pilot on his first solo flight who had his throttle stuck and it was so calm and he never once lost his cool or sounded afraid. And atc was very matter of fact and attentive and he brought his plane down without any drama whatsoever. So you fly with Maggie. I will fly with a confident, clear headed pilot who doesn't get emotional in a crisis and doesn't need to be coddled.

@@padmelotus and it was definitely baby talk. Don't be afraid, mommy is right here.. oh please. Mommy says get a grip on yourself and bring the plane down in one piece.

A great landing is when you can reuse the plane

@@wesss9353 😂😂😂

@@wesss9353 perfect*

More like Baptism by fire!

Me too

I'm a dad... same.

No kids, but as an Uncle I heard my 17 year old niece's voice cracking, and my protection mode kicks in with a, 'oh hell no. This is not going to happen to this girl'. I believe that is what we were hearing from everyone on the radio too.

@@cenccenc946 Yes for sure! It makes you want to just superman it out there and save her! (The "I'm a mom" bit sounds so obnoxious omg I didn't mean it like that. Just that all I am is a mom and no aviator lol I'm too ditzy and chicken 😂😂😂)