It’s not exactly the way you’d want to receive flight instructions when you’re in the air, but it worked: the pilot of a twin-engine small plane in Ireland was guided into land by text messages.
It came about after the plane, which was en route from Kerry to the Channel Islands last November and carrying five passengers, lost all electrical power, which included communications. With no alternative, the pilot used his cell phone to call airports in Kerry, then Cork – only to have his calls dropped.
