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Helen Collins
Helen Collins
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Educator of the reluctant, avoider of housework, feels the cold.
Helen Collins
Helen Collins
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CBS This Morning - 80-year-old woman takes co...
Helen Collins, an 80-year-old woman, landed a plan after her husband, ...
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WIFE, 80, LANDS PLANE AFTER PILOT HUSBAND DIE...
The John and Helen Collins incident occurred on Monday, April 2, 2012....
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Holocaust Survivor Helen Colin Full Testimony
This is a full-length testimony preserved in the Visual History Archiv...
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80-year-old woman takes control of plane mid-...
Helen Collins, an 80-year-old woman, landed a plan after her husband, ...
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Elderly US woman lands plane after pilot-husb...
Helen Collins remained calm as she brought the small Cessna plane in t...
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Audio released of 80-year-old's emergency lan...
Audio tapes have been released which detail the emergency landing by 8...
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Audio shows drama of elderly woman landing small plane
"You better get me in there pretty soon," Helen Collins says at one point, according to a 45-minute audio tape released Wednesday by the Door County Sheriff's Department. "I don't know how long I'm going to have gas."On the flight recording, Helen Collins doesn't say much about her husband, focusing instead on her location and speed. She tells airport officials she's doing fine but that her fuel is extremely low, the Associated Press reports.
It was a nightmarish scenario. Helen Collins' 81-year-old husband, John, was slumped over in the pilot seat as they flew in a two-engine Cessna. Collins, who had little flight experience and none in that type of plane, took the controls and called 911 for help.
Date: Apr 05, 2012
Source: Google
Airport director praises woman's calm in landing plane
Helen Collins, 80, had been circling over the Door County Cherryland Airport for an hour, her unconscious husband beside her in the pilot's seat, and when she heard the right engine of the twin engine Cessna 414 begin to sputter, she knew she couldn't wait any longer.But a few miles from Sturgeon Bay, John Collins slumped over and Helen Collins radioed to air traffic controllers that her husband was having a heart attack, which would turn out to be fatal. She also reported she was not a pilot, though she did have some flight training 15 or 20 years ago. Still, sBy the time the midair drama ended an hour later Monday evening, both Helen Collins and Vuksanovic would be hailed as heroes for keeping cool heads during an emergency that could have ended disastrously.Vuksanovic quickly caught up to Helen Collins as she circled 1,500 feet above the airport, traveling at an airspeed of about 120 knots. Kasbohm listened in on the radio conversations between Vuksanovic and Helen Collins.Meanwhile, the Door County Sheriff's Department scrambled firefighters, ambulances and deputies to the airport. At first officials considered sending Helen Collins to the Green Bay airport but discarded that idea because her plane was low on fuel. Also, officials decided to keep her flying over a leWhen Helen Collins heard the right engine sputtering, she knew it was time to land. Kasbohm said that although propellers on both engines were still turning when she landed, she did not have enough fuel to circle the airport again.
Date: Apr 04, 2012
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Wisconsin Wife, 80, Forced to Land Plane: 'This Is a Hell of a Place to Be'
"I think I'm going to run out of fuel on my right tank," Helen Collins told an assisting pilot from another plane and air traffic controllers coordinating her landing. "Somebody better get here in a hurry."Authorities from the Cherryland Airport spoke to Helen Collins over the radio and pilot Robert Vuksanovic was sent up in the Collins family's second small plane to give her mid-air flight instructions.About six miles from Sturgeon Bay, Wis., something had gone wrong. Helen Collins had called an air control tower to say that "her husband, the pilot of the aircraft, was having some sort of medical emergency and was unresponsive in the aircraft," according to a Door County Sheriff's Office report.
Date: Apr 04, 2012
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Heroes' landing: Sheriff praises woman and pilot who helped her land aircraft
conference Tuesday, Vogel recounted how Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay notified Door County dispatch of a distress call received at 5:05 p.m., when Helen Collins reported the medical emergency. She was spotted on radar about five or six miles south of Sturgeon Bay at 2,300 feet.Southern Door Fire Department and Door County EMS crews responded and transported the Collinses to the hospital. Helen Collins complained of back pain. John Collins never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m.
unconscious at the controls of a small plane, yet she remained calm as she landed the aircraft at a US airport, her son said, MSN News reports.James Collins said he is also a pilot and he helped his mother Helen Collins via radio as the Cessna twin-engine plane began running out of fuel on Monday evening.
as she landed the aircraft at a northeastern Wisconsin airport, her son said Tuesday. James Collins said he's also a pilot and had helped his mother, Helen Collins, via radio as the Cessna twin-engine plane began running out of gas Monday evening near Cherryland Airport, 150 miles north of Milwaukee.
Date: Apr 04, 2012
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
80 year old woman without pilots license makes successful emergency landing ...
James Collins, son of Helen Collins and also a trained pilot, said that her mother took basic lessons to pilot a plane 30 years ago, adding that he and a local pilot Robert Vuksanovic guided her mother in landing the plane safely.