A PILOT fainted mid-flight forcing the packed 747 he was flying to turn around while stewards tried to save the captain.
Lufthansa flight LH463 had just departed Miami, Florida, heading for Frankfurt in Germany.
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But right after leaving the tarmac on January 19, the pilot fainted at the controls.
They were rushed to a crew lounge on the plane where two flight attendants provided first aid.
Control of the Boeing 747-8 was given to the plane’s co-pilot who continued the plane’s path up the eastern seaboard of the US and Canada.
But they decided to make a U-turn at 30,000 feet over Nova Scotia due when they hit torrid weather a pilot down.
The flight made an unscheduled landing at Montreal in Canada more than 1,500 miles away.
It is currently unclear what caused the captain to faint and there have been no updates on his condition.
Fainting pilots are not unheard of, with a Jet2 captain fainting between Manchester and Madeira.
That flight, in August 2019, was forced to land early in Porto before the captain was taken to hospital on arrival.
A month later, a student pilot was forced to make an unplanned emergency landing after his instructor passed out.
Trainee Max Sylvester was in the sky in a Cessna light aircraft when he realised his debut in the sky was going terribly wrong.
Tragically, a pilot died in 2024 mid-flight on a Turkish Air plane he was flying between Seattle and Istanbul.
The Airbus 350 had departed Seattle on Tuesday evening and was on its way to Istanbul when the tragedy happened.
The 59-year-old had worked for the airline since 2007 and had passed a medical examination in March, the flag carrier said.
Lufthansa flight LH463 had just departed Miami before the captain fainted (stock image)
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