An airplane pilot fainted and a passenger collaborated on the emergency landing.

The flight LS765 of the British airline Jet2, which had taken off from Manchester Airport (United Kingdom) for Funchal, on the Portuguese island of Madeira, had to deviate from its route and make an emergency landing in Porto (Portugal) "as a precaution, because one of the pilots felt bad" and fainted, as the company said.

According to the spokesman, the landing "as it should be" was done by the co-pilot. However, the pbadengers claim that the second pilot had used the help of one of the people traveling on the plane.

"The crew announced that something was happening in the badpit and that another Jet2 pilot who was on vacation left from the back of the plane." offered his services to the crew and entered the cabin, "said Nicholas Banks, a bank employee. He was traveling in the plane.

Pbadengers Tracey Jayne and Janet Woolen also confirmed that one of the pbadengers had entered the badpit. "I saw a crew member talking directly to a pbadenger, who then left his seat and headed to the cabin," Tracey said.