“The Plane Went Silent at 30,000 Feet — Until an 11-Year-Old Girl Took the Pilot’s Seat”

made her practice the same emergency procedures hundreds of times until they became second nature. How to manually trim an aircraft. How to navigate using only visual references. How to execute a dead-stick landing with no power. How to interpret weather patterns from cloud formations alone.

“Dad, when will I ever need this?” Mia had asked 1 evening,continue reading …