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A teenage passenger sent a small plane into a nosedive over Alaska when it took controls in mid-flight, Alaska State Troopers said.
Other passengers had to release 18-year-old Jaden Lake-Kameroff from the controls of the Cessna caravans and detain him when the airline pilot regained control of the flight from Bethel to Aniak, it said.
“Lake-Kameroff had asked the pilot to fly the plane earlier in the flight and first asked to be in the unoccupied copilot’s seat,” Austin McDaniel, a spokesman for the soldiers, told The Anchorage Daily News.
“Both requests were denied by the pilot,” he added.
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The Ryan Air flight was in the process of landing and about five miles from the airport when Lake-Kameroff allegedly pushed the controls forward, the news said.
A pilot identified as Joshua Kersch was able to stabilize the plane as passengers who thought they were going to “die” hold the teenager, according to an affidavit quoted by the News.
Lee Ryan, President of Ryan Air, told KYUK the incident was detrimental to travel in remote western Alaska, where air travel is “the only way in and out”.
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“Our pilot relied on his training and professionalism, could just push the passenger back, regain control of the aircraft,” he said, according to the broadcaster.
“Passengers helped hold the stubborn passenger back and they landed the plane without incident. Other incidents.”
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