To fly an aircraft, a pilot is required to go through lengthy training periods and obtain a license. But one 69-year-old woman from California had none of that expertise before she took over and landed a flight safely. Eliot Alper, 78, was piloting a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air 90 from Henderson, Nevada, to Monterey, California, on October 4, 2024, when he suffered a heart attack. Alper and his wife, Yvonne Kinane Wells, were the only two occupants of the small plane, according to a press release by the Federal Aviation Administration.