In a scene that’s harking back to the 1980 cult comedy Airplane!, a flight pulling into West Palm Beach this week managed to keep away from sure calamity when a passenger with no flying expertise took over the controls from the pilot, who was struggling a “medical emergency.”

An area Palm Beach information affiliate, WPBF, was first to report the news, claiming that air visitors controllers had been in a position to assist the passenger safely get the plane landed (once more, not in contrast to a sure film).

“I’ve got a serious situation here,” the passenger advised controllers, in response to audio logs retrieved from a radio tower in Fort Pierce, roughly 70 miles of the aircrafts’ last vacation spot. “My pilot has gone incoherent. I have no idea how to fly the airplane.”

When the air visitors controller requested for the passenger’s place, he responded that he “[has] no idea.”

Eventually, the logs element that the air visitors controllers managed to find the craft (it was about 20 miles east of Boca Raton, itself not too removed from Palm Beach), and guided the passenger/pilot/hero right into a secure descent alongside the Florida coast. Considering how the tower’s recordings present the person fumbling with the craft’s primary navigation display screen, pilots later told the information affiliate that the feat was “absolutely incredible.”

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What’s additionally unimaginable is that the Palm Beach air visitors controller chargeable for guiding the craft safely to land, Robert Morgan of Jupiter, Florida, later told the outlet that he wasn’t even accustomed to the craft he was guiding. Instead, he reportedly used an image of the cockpit from the craft in query—a Cessna Grand Caravan—to piece collectively directions for the terrified passenger inside. “Before I knew it, he said, ‘I’m on the ground, how do I turn this thing off?’,” Morgan advised the outlet.

While neither the passenger’s title or the pilots’ situation was launched publicly, the The Federal Aviation Administration is “investigating,” in response to the outlet. But in the interim, possibly we will simply assume they had been paying homage to the traditional comedy flick by consuming some dangerous fish and turning right into a “quivering, wasted piece of jelly” within the aftermath.