In a shocking incident, an 18-year-old boy grabbed the controls of a commercial flight and sent it into a nosedive in US' Alaska.?
Other passengers had to subdue Jaden Lake-Kameroff from the controls of the airplane and hold him down as the commercial pilot regained control of the flight from Bethel, New York Post reported.?
Lake-Kameroff was on a Ryan Air flight with four other passengers when he got up from his seat around 2:44 p.m local time,?Alaska State Troopers said in an?online statement.?He was seated in the second row during the flight, it said.?
¡°Lake-Kameroff had asked the pilot to fly the plane earlier during the flight and initially asked to sit in the unoccupied copilot seat,¡± Austin McDaniel, a spokesman for the troopers, told?The Anchorage Daily News.??
¡°Both requests were denied by the pilot,¡± he added.??
The plane was reportedly 8 km from the Aniak airport and in the process of landing when Lake-Kameroff grabbed the controls, McDaniel said. The plane was roughly 1,000 to 1,500 feet above the ground, Kersch told troopers, according to the affidavit.
Kersch said he was scared and his main concern was maintaining control of the plane, Bohac wrote.
Passengers on the plane said they ¡°thought we were going to die,¡± the affidavit said.
Thankfully, the plane landed safely in Aniak, which is about 90 miles northeast of Bethel.