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Seems ridiculous, right? I mean, just a few simple instructions and you can learn how to land a plane? Please!
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And it was still a cliché long before they tried it out. And even if it's actually possible, the contrivances to get the hero into this situation tend to stretch the [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]].
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* Ted Striker did this in both ''Zero Hour!'' and ''[[Airplane!]]'' Ted was a pilot, but he was shell-shocked and had bad eyes in the former, and in the latter he was entirely unused to a multi-engine jumbo jet (see ''Runway Zero-Eight'' in literature below).
** And he has this drinking problem. *[[Running Gag|SPLASH]]*
** The theme of food poisoning from eating fish was inspired by the 1971 movie ''Terror in the Sky''.
* 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]]''.
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*** Which the hero and the flight attendant together could figure out easily enough, he with the basic flight training could understand much of the terminology, and she who works on the plane probably at some point noticed where the pilots keep all the manuals. Presumably on the only bookshelf in the cockpit.
* In the movie ''[[It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'', Ding and Benjy are forced to make one of these landings after their pilot falls unconscious after drinking too much while flying.
* The 1986 movie ''Panic in the Skies'' involves Kate Jackson and Ed Marinaro having land the plane after the pilots are dead. The Air Force decides whether to shoot the plane down to avoid from crashing into the city.
* The Doris Day movie ''Julie''.
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== Live Action TV ==
* As mentioned, ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'' (insert [[Memetic Badass|Chuck Norris Joke]] here).
* ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'' did it, referencing several movies where it had occurred. Higgins is the one talking him in and, unfortunately, fails to tell him how to stop the plane once it is on the runway; causing him to crash after he's landed.
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* The [[Derren Brown]] special ''Hero at 30,000 feet'' leads up to the subject (with a major fear of flying) being put on an airplane and told that the pilot had passed out. After volunteering to land the plane, he was put into a trance during which the plane was landed normally, and he was moved to a flight simulator. He landed the plane in the simulator successfully.
* In an episode of the ''[[A-Team]]'', the team takes over a plane from the bad guys, only to have Murdock blinded. Hannibal and Face land the plane, with Murdoch giving instructions.
* ''Leverage'' had a variation. The team creates a fake emergency at an airport and the air traffic controllers divert all the planes before evacuating. Hardison is the only one left in the control tower when he realizes that one plane could not divert and has to land. With no real controllers left in the building Hardison has to try and give the flight crew landing instructions. In an [[Eureka Moment]] he loads up a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator and simply reads back to the pilots the instructions the simulator gives him for the landing scenario for that particular airport.
* 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?
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