That Doesn't Happen Every Day

When the pilot has a stroke and you have to land the plane yourself

James Barrett Season 2 Episode 2

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In 1969 James Barret was in the passenger seat of a plane headed to Riverton, Wyoming when the pilot suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and couldn't fly the plane. This is James' story about what he did to survive.

Links to other plane crash stories:
Crash of Flight 409 near Laramie, WY
Bomber Mountain

Check out The Wyoming State Archives Oral History Collection here.

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