It's a standard (well, since the Airport movies) dramatic moment -- the pilots are incapacitated, the plane needs to be landed, and some brave passenger steps forward and, with gumption and assistance from the tower, brings the plane down for a scary, but safe landing.
Not likely, alas.
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I'm sure I could do it if the instrument panel used the same keyboard shortcuts as my PC flight simulator. :)
"No. I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande." ;P
"Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes."
"Yes, birds too."
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