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From: tejek	6/18/2009 11:55:13 AM
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Plane set for emergency landing after pilot dies in flight The pilot of a Continental Airlines flight from Brussels has died in flight and the plane will be making an emergency landing at Newark international airport shortly, CBS2 news reports. The FAA says Continental Flight 61 will land around noon ET. It's not known what caused the pilot to become ill or how he died. FAA officials say one of the two first officers on board is piloting the plane, CBS2 reports. Update at 11:26 a.m. ET: The Associated Press is now reporting that the FAA confirms the pilot's death and says the Boeing 777, listed as Flight 61, will land around noon. Update at 11:38 a.m. ET: USA TODAY's Alan Levin sent us this file: A Continental Airlines captain died during a trans-Atlantic flight Thursday, prompting the co-pilot and a second pilot aboard the jet to take over the controls, the government said. Flight 61 from Brussels to Newark was scheduled to arrive at about noon, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown. Few details of the incident were available, but Brown said that air-traffic controllers had no reports that the plane was in danger or that the captain died from anything other than natural causes. The flight is scheduled for slightly more than eight hours, which under federal law requires the airline to hire a third pilot for the flight. That extra pilot's job is to monitor the controls while either the captain or co-pilot take rests during the cruise portion of the flight. That may explain why there was a second co-pilot available to help with the controls. Brown said that, while rare, pilots have occasionally died on flights and the second pilot was able to safely land the plane. The plane is a Boeing 777, a widebody jet popular for international flights. blogs.usatoday.com

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