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A personal transport plane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday after circling in an unresponsive flight pattern for several hours, US officials said.

Prague - A Czech Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Prague on Wednesday after the captain collapsed and died in mid-flight, the company said.

The ATR propeller aircraft on a regular flight from Warsaw to Prague with 46 passengers on board, landed under the control of the co-pilot and no one was injured.

“Safety of passengers was not threatened. The landing was conducted without complications by the second pilot,” the airline said in a statement.

“Unfortunately the life of the captain could not be saved,” the statement said. Czech Airlines is the state-owned Czech national carrier. - Reuters

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Tshepo, wrote

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12:26pm on 16 February 2012
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Imagine if the captain collapses while the co-pilot is sleeping.

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