Passenger lands airplane with no experience at a British airport Tuesday following the collapse of the pilot.

John Wildey landed the four-seater airplane in the dark having never attempted a landing before.  "I hadn't a clue what to do to get down," he told the BBC.

Wildey was the only one on the airplane. The two were on a daylong trip when they departed from Sandtoft Airfield, which is roughly 25 miles from Humberside Airport where the passenger lands the plane.

Humberside Airport received a mayday call from the Cessna 172 aircraft, alerting the control room that the pilot had collapsed leaving him with no other choice but land it himself.

Roy Murray, an instructor at the Frank Morgan School of Flying was one of the people in communication with Wildey.

"We had to get him to do two to three circuits. The last one was not very good so we told him to go round again and on the fourth one he managed it," Murray said in a press conference.

When the plane landed, it was ruled a controlled crash. There were sparks, though the plane did end up on the grass when Wildey turned off the tarmac at the end of the landing. A punctured tire was the only damage done to the aircraft, according to ABC News.

"It's nothing short of heroic. He remained calm throughout the incident and keeping his head saved his life," a spokesman for Humberside Airport told ABC News.

The pilot, who has not been named, has died following the collapse, according to Humberside police. According to a statement, an autopsy will be done, though "the death is not being treated as suspicious."