alexberenson.substack.com At 7:59 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 19, Captain Patrick Ford collapsed at the controls of his American Eagle Embraer 175 – only seconds after the 76-seat jet had left the runway in Chicago.
Ford was speaking to an air traffic controller at Chicago O’Hare, one of the world’s busiest airports, when his voice abruptly stopped, a publicly available recording of the incidents show.
“Can I help you?” the controller anxiously asked, seconds later.
“We need to return, captain is incapacitated,” Ford’s copilot coolly reported…
