Switched has picked up on ban amazing story first reported by the Irish Times, whereby an Irish Air traffic controller helped guide a seriously malfunctioning plane to a safe landing - via text message.

"In an effort to establish any form of contact with someone back on the ground, he phoned a controller at the Cork airport and spoke only momentarily of his troubles before losing voice signal. The quick-thinking controller decided to switch up his conversation method to texting, eventually providing sufficient details to safely guide the pilot in."

Source: http://www.textually.org/