A passenger aboard a small airplane safely landed in North Carolina Sunday after the pilot suffered a medical emergency and died. The two were the only ones aboard the small Cirrus SR-20 when the tragic death occurred, WRAL-TV reported. According to the news station, Joe Izatt was piloting the plane with another person who was not identified. Izatt was a professor at Duke University and was the chairman of the school’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. After he fell unconscious while piloting the airplane, his passenger took over the controls, according to WRAL. The person safely landed th…