A small plane landed itself safely at a Colorado airport in what marked the first-ever use of Garmin’s Autoland system in an emergency situation, according to the company.
The incident occurred Saturday afternoon at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield, near Denver, and involved a twin-engine Beechcraft Super King Air, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The pilot lost communication with air traffic control and an “onboard emergency autoland system was activated,” the FAA said in a statement.
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Two pilots were traveling with no passengers when the aircraft “experienced a rapid, uncommanded loss of pressurization,” Buffalo River Aviation, which owns the plane, said in a statement…