Small boy fly plane after pilot fainted on air.

  

A teenager described on Sunday how he took the controls of a light plane for more than half an hour after the pilot passed out during a joy flight over rural Australia. Troy Jenkins, 19, said the single-engine Cessna 150 was only 10 minutes into a flight from the New South Wales state farming town of Forbes on Saturday
afternoon when the pilot Derek Neville, 61, lost consciousness. Jenkins said he had taken the controls before while flying with Neville, a family friend. Jenkins flew circles around Forbes airport at a steady altitude of 610 meters (2,000 feet) for around 45 minutes before the pilot came to. "Keeping it up wasn't a problem, it was the landing part I wasn't sure of," Jenkins told The Associated Press. "I was pretty scared." "I thought I had to save myself and him. It was quite an experience," he added.