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* This almost happens in ''Airport 1975'', when the chief stewardess ends up flying a 747 after a mid-air collision. ''Almost'', because George Kennedy and the U.S. Air Force managed to drop [[Charlton Heston]] into the airliner's cockpit so he could land it instead.
* Can overlap with [[I Know Mortal Kombat]], if the civilian plays piloting games obsessively, a la ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]''.
** This trope is [[Lampshade
* ''Turbulence''
** ''Turbulence'' lacked some of that "learning how to fly on-the-fly" magic that graced ''Airplane!'', because the 747's controls were entirely automatic. The <s>stewardess</s> flight attendant basically pressed the "Fly me to Los Angeles" button, and the "Land me" button.
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* Mentioned on an episode of ''[[QI]]'', in which they refer to a study that showed that only one in ten American pilots of private planes could safely land a commercial airliner in simulation.
* [[The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries]]: ''The Strange Fate of Flight 608'' has all three jet pilots knocked out by some weird drug...leaving Frank and Joe Hardy to fly the plane. In a hurricane. In the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. Without any radio help, and the one semi-conscious pilot falls asleep mid-instruction. Guess who manages to crash-land in the middle of the ocean?
* One episode of ''[[The Unit]]'' had Brown and Gerhardt talking a guy down whose pilot had died on him. Apparently the man in question was former black ops, and somebody higher up had it out for him as their rescue attempt was repeatedly interfered with. First the pilot died, then somebody called the base and told them to stop
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** A similiar (or possibly the same) incident was recounted in an issue of ''Reader's Digest''.
* Current autopilots are actually designed to handle landings, making this more than plausible as long as the radio is still working so the non-pilot will know what buttons to push.
** An essay in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Literature/Expanded Universe|Expanded Universe]]'' even lets us know that it was possible ''at that time'' (1982) to fully automate an airline
*** Heinlein had also written an [[Author Tract]] against automation of anything as complex and potentially hazardous as a garage door, stating that controls should have triple redundancy to execute and half a dozen manual overrides (though he was for giving self-aware AI's the same rights and autonomy as any other sentient being.)
** James May (of ''[[Top Gear]]'' fame) has published a book called ''How to Land an A330 Airbus'' which in the titular chapter explains to a complete novice how to land with autopilot and radio assist at an airport equipped with landing assist. The chapter has a disclaimer saying (I paraphrase) "To be used only in the event of complete buttock-clenching emergency."
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