Woman, 69, lands plane after pilot husband suffers heart attack

In a remarkable emergency, Yvonne Kinane-Wells, 69, landed a plane in California after her husband, Eliot Alper, 78, suffered a heart attack mid-flight. With no flying experience, she followed air traffic control’s instructions to safely navigate and land at Bakersfield’s Meadows Field Airport. Alper was hospitalized, while Kinane-Wells's quick thinking is being hailed as heroic.

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