Jetliner lands safely after pilot dies - Newark NJ 6/18/09

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Date: 6/18/09

Time: 11:40

Location: over Atlantic Ocean & Newark Airport

Weather Conditions: Rain

Description Of Incident: Airline Pilot Dies while flying a Boeing 777Reporters:

Writer: CNN, JETPHOTO

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/18/pilot.dead/index.html

CNN) -- Continental Flight 61, whose pilot died Thursday while flying from Brussels, Belgium, to Newark, New Jersey, has landed safely, the Federal Aviation Administration and Continental Airlines said.

The Boeing 777 landed at Newark International Airport at 11:49 a.m. ET Thursday, Continental Airlines said.

1 of 2 The Boeing 777 landed at Newark International Airport at 11:49 a.m. ET Thursday, the airline said, after the 60-year-old Newark-based pilot died "apparently of natural causes."