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Re:Pilot posts detailed MS Flight Sim video of how to land B... by dogma1138 on Thursday February 18, 2016 @08:09AM (#11125436)
The purser doesn't get any special training, I don't know of any incident on a commercial scale in which the pilot and the copilot were incapacitated or dead and the crew had even time to react.

There were plenty of incidents with small aircraft especially training aircraft where a non pilot had to land it but I don't think anyone untrained was ever in a position to land something as big as 737.

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Re:Pilot posts detailed MS Flight Sim video of how to land B... by JorgeGT on Thursday February 18, 2016 @08:27AM (#11125533)
From memory the closest event would be Helios Airways Flight 522 crash, where passage and crew were incapacitated by hypoxia. A flight attendant who was a certified commercial pilot (but without experience on a 737) managed to resist awake thanks to a portable oxygen supply and enter the cockpit.

He even waved at the chase F-16 next to him but one engine flamed out as soon as he entered and the plane started to descend, crashing just 15 min later.

Maybe if he had had more time (and oxygen) he could have managed to bring the aircraft to an airport, but we will never know.

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