Originally Posted by
bluepost22
Watched the interview with the controller.
The passenger/pilot asked "shouldn't we put flaps?" so they put in flaps but the pilot said the plane felt unsteady, didn't seem willing/able to trim it out, so they took out the flaps.
They pulled out the pilot's radio headset when they moved him out of the way, sounds like they damaged the connectors in the process.
The Garmin was black? How did that happen?
bluepost22
In the GA aircraft I know if you take the right-seat guy´s headset (I understand it remained plugged in) and try to talk pushing the pilot push-to-talk it would not work. So there´s a slight inconsistency in this part of the story.
Anyway, kudos to this guy (and/or the guy in the right seat) and the controller who talked him down. I regularly have problems talking down guys in more simple airplanes while sitting nest to them.