Passenger Takes Controls of Small Airplane From Ailing Pilot and Crash Lands in Martha's Vineyard

A passenger of a small airplane took the controls and crash landed on a Massachusetts island on Saturday after the pilot suffered a medical emergency

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は...

操縦不能になったPilotに代わり乗客がEmergency Landingをし、機体は大破しましたが、一命を取り留めました。

この期待、小型機とありますが普通の方々が想像する機体ではなく、かなり高級機であり操縦も難しいものです。従って、大破で済んで良かったと思います。

読んでみましょう！

BOSTON (AP) — A passenger of a small airplane took the controls and crash landed on a Massachusetts island on Saturday after the pilot suffered a medical emergency, police said.
The crash happened on Saturday afternoon near Martha's Vineyard Airport in West Tisbury, Massachusetts. The 79-year-old male pilot suffered the emergency during the plane's final approach, Massachusetts State Police said.

State police said the crash “resulted in a hard landing outside the runway that caused the aircraft’s left wing to break in half.” Authorities did not name either person on the plane and said both were transported to a hospital.
The pilot was then flown to a Boston hospital in life-threatening condition. The female passenger was uninjured and released from a local hospital, police said.
The 2006 Piper Meridian airplane departed from Westchester County, New York, earlier Saturday afternoon. The pilot and passenger are Connecticut residents, police said.