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The pilot(s) has been taken out somehow, and only you can land this plane. The thing is that even if you know how to fly a plane, such as a light recreational plane, you don't have training with how to fly this type of plane (a huge jet). A variant is there is a passenger with flying experience on big planes, but it was during the last war, so they don't understand the electronic screens and procedures on a modern jet. So someone has to walk them through working all the complicated machinery and instruments, and hopefully you can glean enough from what they are telling you to land the plane safely. Seems ridiculous, right? I mean, just a few simple instructions and you can learn how to land a plane? Please! Well, Mythbusters tried it out, and Jamie and Adam both pulled it off. Who knew? The common knowledge was that it shouldn't have been possible even under controlled conditions. The feat has since been done in real life, making the trope Truth in Television, if still a situation few people would want to find themselves in. 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. The basics of flying a plane that's already in the air are very, very easy - in fact, nearly all large airplanes today fly themselves (at least in most situations) and are designed to land in full autopilot if necessary. The hard part about flying is doing it 15 hours in a row in bad weather with a sky full of other planes, with air traffic control constantly yelling at you and your crew mishandling the complex avionics. Start-up of a contemporary jet involves roughly 30 minutes of systems checking, switch flips and button presses, and of course you'll have to land the plane >100 times a year without a scratch. So there, that explains the 1500 flight hours requirement for the Airline Transport Pilot License. Compare Falling into the Cockpit and Coming in Hot. Contrast Captain Crash. Sub-Trope of Arduous Descent to Terra Firma |
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Air Crash Investigation: Averted; see "Ghost Plane" below. The male flight attendant who was the only conscious person on the plane was possibly under the influence of hypoxia and had insufficient training to handle a 737, and by the time he reached the cockpit, the fuel was already critically low. The plane eventually ran out of fuel and crashed. The possibility is raised in a few other episodes, but it never actually happens. |
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The Far Side had a jet liner going down in flames, with the pilot taken out and chaos in the cockpit, and a poodle stepping up to the controls to save the day. | |
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Subverted on Desperate Housewives. When the pilot of a small plane has a heart attack and dies while flying, his wife (the only passenger) can't find a safe place to land, so she crash-lands the plane onto Wisteria Lane, killing herself and several people on the ground. | |
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In Sharknado 2: The Second One, Fin had to land the plane when both pilots were killed; at least one engine was destroyed, there are several holes in the plane, and there are sharks flapping around. | |
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Blood Red Sky opens with a hijacked airliner being talked down onto an air force base in Scotland, flown by passenger Farid al Adwa. Unfortunately his troubles are not over yet as the authorities assume he's a terrorist and refuse to let him leave the aircraft despite his urging. We then flashback to How We Got Here. It's later revealed that one of the pilots Bastian was in league with the real terrorists, but on being told that Farid could safely use the autopilot to land the aircraft, the heroine (a vampire) killed Bastian to drain his blood rather than Farid's. | |
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Chuck did this with a helicopter. Interestingly, when Casey first tries to guide him through using technical terms, Chuck is completely lost. Then Sarah steps in and tells him to pretend it's a video game. | |
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It was probably inevitable that Wings would utilize this, and they did. In the second season episode "Airport '90", Brian takes Helen up so she can practice flying. Sure enough, Brian falls during some turbulence and is knocked out cold, and Joe must talk Helen through the landing. | |
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Cheers subverts this; Sam and Diane go up in a three person plane, and the pilot, a massive prankster, fakes a fainting spell, whereupon they are forced to get air-traffic control to walk them through it; the radio shorts out just as the Air Traffic Controller says "This is very important; whatever you do, don't-". | |
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In Donkey Kong Country, DK, flying in Funky's biplane as part of a Zany Scheme to undo a I Owe You My Life situation, finds himself out of control when Dixie's pet crab chews away the remote control Funky was using to steer the plane on the ground. Luckily, Cranky's hologram appears to coach DK through. | |
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Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal involves a heavy metal concert on-board a 747, which turns into a hostage situation after members of a Satanic cult hijack the plane with the intent to crash it into a small church in Kansas with millions of people watching online, which they believe will bring about the Apocalypse. Slade Craven, the star of the concert, manages to subdue or kill the hijackers, but now there's no one to land the plane (the captain is shot by a cultist, while the co-pilot is himself one who commits suicide in front of Craven). Also, the control tower at the airport is destroyed by an explosion. A hacker and a great fan of Craven's music, along with an FBI agent, manages to contact Craven and guide him to land the aircraft, while the hacker himself tries to simulate the landing with a flight simulator. Interestingly, the hacker fails in the simulator, but Craven succeeds. | |
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The Simpsons: In "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs", Homer has to land a private jet after the pilot passes out. Marge calls his life coach to talk him through the process, but the life coach doesn't know how to land a plane either. | |
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In the middle of The Idiot Apocalypse you must land a plane in order to get to the fantasy island Trizabet, as the pilot is unable due to the intelligence decreasing virus. This involves noticing the randomly flashing numbers being described by the game and hearing Lisp Guy's hint about prime numbers, thus needing to enter any prime number between the two flashing numbers in order to successfully land. | |
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As mentioned, MythBusters proved this trope is plausible. They just can't call it confirmed because there is no actual recorded incident of it in Real Life, and it was done in a simulation (which they did fail without help though). The expert attempting to walk them through the simulated landing noted that even a simulation was extremely stressful. | |
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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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A variation in Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire had Max and Gym Leader Tate taking instructions from Tate's father to land a rocket ship. | |
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Chariot. The plot involves seven passengers who have been placed on an airplane after a nuclear attack on the United States. When they force their way into the cockpit the pilots open fire on them, leading to a shoot-out that kills one pilot and seriously injures the other. Turns out none of the passengers know how to fly the plane, so a passenger who is a truck driver agrees to assist the wounded pilot. When that man also dies, he has to try and land the airplane as they've completely run out of options. The movie ends at that point, so we don't find out if he succeeds. | |
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The Boys (2019): A chilling aversion in "The Female Of The Species". Homelander and Queen Maeve are sent to stop a mid-air hijacking, but a terrorist kills the pilots just as they enter the cockpit. When asked if he can fly a plane, Homelander just shrugs (he's a Flying Brick, so why would he learn?) and points out that even if he could, he inadvertently destroyed the flight controls when he shot the terrorist with his Eye Beams. He then callously leaves the passengers to die, refusing even to save a mother and child because they'd be witnesses to how the Supes screwed up. | |
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We Bare Bears: In "Baby Bears on a Plane", Baby Ice Bear is the only one who can fly the plane when the pilot nearly chokes on his pancakes and passes out, and the co-pilot is accidentally locked out of the cockpit. | |
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In episode 11 of The Mysterious Mr. M, after Waldron shoots Kirby Walsh and parachutes out of the plane, Shirley takes the controls and Grant tries to talk her down. The Cliffhanger has Shirley flying right at some power lines that come out of the fog as she's making her final approach to the runway. | |
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Happens at least twice in Mortadelo y Filemón: In Secuestro Aéreo, Mortadelo goes disguised as copilot to the cockpit of an airliner and is mistaken by the captain as the actual copilot. He's forced to seat and begin the take-off procedures having absolutely no idea while the plane is accelerating on the runway. Mortadelo mistakes the button to turn on the radar with the one that drops a fire extinguisher in the captain's head, leaving him KO. Things only go worse from here. In Los �ngeles '84, Profesor Bacterio when brawling with Mortadelo knocks unconscious both pilot and co-pilot of the airliner that's carrying the protagonists and the athletes to the Olympic Games. Bacterio offers to pilot the plane managing to land it upside down |
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Subverted in Y: The Last Man when airline stewardess Beth II tries to land the aircraft after the male pilots die in the Gendercide. The plane crashes, killing all but three of the passengers. She later realises that the automatic landing system had already been set and if she'd just left the controls alone they would likely have landed safely. | |
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In a first season episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, the villains, in a rare moment of brilliance, attempted to kill Kimberly by sneaking her uncle a sleeping potion just before he took her, Bulk, and Skull up in his airplane (the two bullies also sipped the potion). The presence of civilians meant she couldn't simply teleport away, and so this trope was brought in to save the day. | |
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In the movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Ding and Benjy are forced to make one of these landings after their inebriated pilot hits his head while flying and knocks himself out. | |
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Steve of Irregular Webcomic! eventually lands a plane during a Snakes on a Plane parody. | |
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Penny Arcade has fun with this in this strip. A la Snakes on a Plane, one of the non-pilot staff asks if anybody knows how to fly a plane. Gabe, who has played a lot of flight and space-sim video games, volunteers and... asks the co-pilot to divert power to the forward shields. | |
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Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting: One of the books adventure hooks forces the players to learn how to ride wyvern-mounts or freeze to death in a mountain-side blizzard. Since the hook is called "The Impossible Task," it seems to be written for characters that don't have dragon-riding as part of their backstory. | |
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Resident Evil 6: Leon Kennedy (a known Captain Crash of the series) has to land a plane after one of the pilots mutates and kills everyone onboard except Leon and his partner Helena. They survive with minor scrapes, but before that the plane drags itself along the street across half the small Chinese town and collides with a train. This event is the only one shown in each of four campains of the game, with other characters freaking out when a huge airliner glides several meters above their heads. Later, Leon and Helena get into similar situation on a helicopter. After barely avoiding yet another collision with a train, they crash into a building they were heading to. |
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MAD parodied this in a segment for "obsolete movie clichés" where a flight attendant has to activate the automated emergency landing sequence, which doesn't require her to do much at all. | |
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The Incredible Hulk (1977). The episode "747" had David Banner being the one who had to land the plane, while suppressing his Hulk Out from the pressure of doing it. He's able to land the plane only to hulk out before he can activate the brakes, but fortunately a teenager who'd been reading a pilot's manual enters the cockpit and is able to show the Hulk what to do. | |
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Father Brown: In "The Missing Man", Father Brown has to be talked through landing a light plane after the pilot (a young girl) freezes at the stick. The person talking him down inadvertently makes the 'crash course' joke, and Father Brown mutters several prayers throughout the process. | |
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An episode of Walker, Texas Ranger (insert Chuck Norris Joke here). | |
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James May (of Top Gear (UK) 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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In Quantum Leap, Al guides Sam through piloting a plane (actually the X-1) but tells him not to bother trying to land but to just eject once he's broken the sound barrier. | |
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Standard operating procedure for the Vulture Squadron on Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines. There's no plane they can't destroy in a six-minute episode. | |
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In an episode of The A-Team, the team takes over a plane from the bad guys, only to have Murdock blinded. Hannibal lands the plane, with Murdock giving instructions. The team originally called the control tower for help. They planned to give the team a false heading and have them crash-land in the ocean. Amy was at the control tower, pulled a security guard's gun and radioed the team to tell them about it. The control tower and Murdock were able to guide Hannibal to landing the plane. |
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Happened in an episode of The Flintstones when Fred is taking piloting lessons. Barney ends up with Fred when he's taking the license test. Fred got himself ejected out from his plane after a mishap from flying in restricted area and leaving Barney behind. Fred instructs Barney from the radio on landing the plane safely. | |
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The Garfield and Friends episode "Skyway Robbery" also had this plot point halfway through. After Jon, Garfield, and Odie have taken off in the rundown plane that they boarded (thanks to Mr. Swindler), the plane starts to have problems after the pilot bailed out, leaving the three in the dark about how to land the plane. It was fortunate that Jon was able to contact the air control tower who starts to talk them down. However, when the air control officer tells them how to work the plane, Jon doesn't know which control to use, but when said officer begins describing the controls in a way that Garfield understands (the air control officer began using food and pasta-related terms because he was having spaghetti), Garfield was able to flawlessly land the plane back on the ground again. | |
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An issue of the Barbie comic featured Barbie having to land the space shuttle like this. The comic justified with the claim that because Barbie already knew how to fly planes, flying the shuttle was easy to learn in a matter of moments. | |
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Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War: In the mission "Handful of Hope", Blaze and Nagase come across a damaged, but still airborne C-5 Galaxy (a large military cargo plane) while out on a routine patrol. It soon turns out that it is carrying the Osean president Vincent Harling on a top-secret diplomatic mission, when a traitor on board attempts to assassinate him. The attempt fails, but both pilots are killed. Harling's presidential aide Tommy then takes over the controls to emergency-land the plane, being on only passenger with some rudimentary flight training. He manages to land the C-5 in a nearby field with a lot of encouragement from his boss and, more pertinently, some intense guidance from Nagase. | |
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In an episode of Pixelface, Kiki gets trapped in a flight simulator game and has to be talked through the landing procedure by Rex. However, being the Cloud Cuckoolander, Rex is only able to do after first constructing a mock-up of the flight controls made entirely of fruit (It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context). | |
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Quantum Leap (2022): While Cory is rerouting the hydraulics systems in "The Friendly Skies", Ben is left to land the plane. Ian steps in as the hologram to walk Ben through it and provide him with a Heads-Up Display. | |
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Girl Genius: Gil tosses Tarvek and Othar out of the airship on his untested flying machine that no one but Gil, and maybe Agatha, knows how to fly. He's confident Othar will ensure they survive since Othar seems to survive getting tossed out of airships daily, but Othar gets himself knocked out and Tarvek, who hates flying, has to figure out how to get the thing to work before they fall to their deaths. | |
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The Mod Squad: Linc did this in "Real Loser," in a small single-prop aircraft. | |
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Bugs did this in an early episode where a disgruntled computer scientist was hacking into an autopilot system he designed in order to get them to pay him royalties on the system. | |
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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 flight attendant basically pressed the "Fly me to Los Angeles" button, and the "Land me" button. | |
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The pilot movie for San Francisco International Airport (as seen on Mystery Science Theater 3000) has one subplot revolving a boy who steals a light airplane; Parnell Roberts' character has to talk the boy through how to land the plane. Justified by having the plane in question being "easy to fly", and the boy having a fan's knowledge of aircraft to build on. | |
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Played with at the end of Bee Movie. First she thinks she can fly a plane due to instructions from a bee, by simply following his motions. She finds this incredibly easy...until lightning strikes the plane, shutting off the autopilot which was running the entire time. Turns out, flying a plane isn't so easy. Fair enough. Then it goes into Refuge in Audacity by having a hive of bees carry the plane to the runway. Must be a pretty light plane. Oh, and as they land, they break every law of aerodynamics by having the airplane hover, move backwards, etc. around a large flower. | |
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Bob's Burgers: In "Seaplane!", Linda is forced to land Kurt's sea-plane based on having seen him fake a crash-landing earlier in the episode. | |
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The Case Closed Non-Serial Movie Detective Conan Film 08: Magician of the Silver Sky features a particularly intricate example: after poison incapacitates its pilots and a lightning strike disables the autopilot and radio, high school girls Ran and Sonoko must manually land an airliner (that is also missing one engine and almost out of fuel) on an unlit pier. Fortunately they have help from high school detective Shinichi Kudo (in the person of Conan disguising his voice, calling them from an intercom phone to talk them through the procedure) and flamboyant thief Kaitou Kid (who manipulates the dozens of police cars chasing him into forming up as makeshift runway lights). | |
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In "Death is a Bitch", Peter, taking over Death's job is forced to kill the kids from Dawson's Creek to prove people can still die. He fails to do so and accidentally killed the pilots. Actress Karen Black steps in and land the plane. | |
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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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The Scooby-Doo crossover ep with The Three Stooges "The Ghost Of The Red Baron" has Curly applying for the position of cropduster for a farmer, but his flying skills leave a bit to be desired, crashing through the corn field to halt his forward movement after a haphazard flight. Then later, the Red Baron sets a plane airborne with Velma in the cockpit. And in spite of her bright mind, she doesn't know how to operate it. Scooby falls off a windmill and into the cockpit next to Velma. They embrace each other as the plane, running out of gas and skimming the ground, splash-crashes into a pond. The very first Scooby episode "What a Night For a Knight" does this. The gang is hiding from the Black Knight in a museum's World War I exhibit with Shaggy and Scooby in a biplane's cockpit. Scooby's tail accidentally turns the engine on and set it in motion and flight. Scooby manuevers it and it winds up crashing into the Black Night. |
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Get Smart. At the end of "Closely Watched Planes", Maxwell Smart realises he's stuck with this trope after knocking out the KAOS agents who are disguised as the airliner crew. We're not shown how he resolved the situation. | |
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Subverted in Executive Decision. The Big Bad shoots up the cockpit, killing the pilots, and taking out the radio. So the heroes have to flip through a flight manual to learn how to land. Given that the hero in question had some experience as a light-plane pilot (but not yet certified) he at least would know enough of the jargon to keep the plane flying and make a decent landing attempt. His only mistake is overshooting the runway and putting the plane into a crash barrier, but as they say, any landing you can walk away from.... | |
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Saturday Night Live. In one sketch, host Lisa Kudrow plays a flight attendant who discovers the flight crew has died. She then has to land the plan with instruction from the control tower. Unfortunately, the person she's taking instructions from is Chris Kattan's unintelligible character. In a similar sketch, members of Kylie Jenner's entourage are forced to land a plane, with the help of two air traffic controllers (Kate McKinnon and James McAvoy), who they unfortunately can't understand, due to their thick Scottish accents. |
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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. | |
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Young Justice (2010). In "Misplaced", a spell has made every adult in the world disappear. Billy Batson (who can't change into Captain Marvel or he'll disappear too) persuades a teenage girl called Amber to fly him in a Cessna to their headquarters at Happy Harbor. Unfortunately Amber turns eighteen at the stroke of midnight and disappears as well, leaving Billy stuck in the airplane. Rather than try to land it, he takes the risk of transforming into Captain Marvel which is just as well, as the adults are actually in an alternate universe where all the children have disappeared, so Marvel can tell them what's going on (and save Amber who's now falling to her death in that universe). | |
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Played with in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Teddy is obsessed with aviation, and is shown having constructed a mock-up of the controls of a plane at his table in the hotel, and is getting a pilot to talk him through how to take-off his particular aircraft, with the implication that he has done this before with other pilots. This experience allows him to steal a plane in Syracuse and chase the bomber holding Indy, despite never actually having flown before. | |
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The music video for "Learn to Fly" by the Foo Fighters. The entire flight crew and most of the passengers on a flight that the Foos are on are incapacitated by coffee that had been accidentally drugged (during a guest cameo by Tenacious D at the beginning of the video), requiring the Foos to leap into action to land the plane themselves. Ironically, the Foos were not taken out by the coffee because they were drinking cocktails instead. | |
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Tintin and the Lake of Sharks: After the pilot jumps from the plane with a parachute, Tintin has to take control of the plane and perform an emergency landing. | |
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In the Person of Interest episode "4C" Finch had to hack into the controls of an airliner about to crash into the runway at an airport in Rome (The pilots had been injured by a member of the Carnival of Killers trying to kill the week's Number) from his library in New York and land it remotely. A previous episode had established that he did have a pilot's license - for prop planes. This was his first attempt at piloting a 747. The plane bounces a little on the runway, but does land safely. | |
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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 helping — which they chose to disregard — and finally somebody jammed their radios as the guy was on approach. | |
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JAG: Harmon Rabb lands a 747 airliner belonging to Oceanic Airlines in �The Bridge at Kang So Ri� after having taken out South Korean radical-left hijackers. Considering that he’s a pilot, he only gets a reminder of how big a 747 really is. In the pilot episode, he has to bring in a damaged F-14 Tomcat after the pilot was injured on a recon mission. Harm was trained to operate the Tomcat, but he's five years out of practice and needs help from their Wing Man and from Mission Control to bring the plane in safely for a night-time landing. To further complicate things, Harm suffers from Night Blindness, the cause of the crash that previously ended his flying career. |
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Larry Laffer from Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work successfully landed a plane by turning on the autopilot, because the pilot went on strike while the airplane was still in the air. Larry's total flight experience up to that point had been selling flight simulator software. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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This was used in the Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: H.O.L.I.D.A.Y.". Lizzie is forced to take the controls of the plane after Numbuh Two and Numbuh Three both became incapacitated after inadvertently taking a bite from the pie that Lizzie was going to give to Numbuh One. Numbuh One was forced to give Lizzie instructions on how to fly and land the plane. The episode even threw in this amusingly clever Shout-Out to Airplane!: | |
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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. | |
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Voyagers!: At one point in the episode "All Fall Down," Jeffery must land a plane after everyone else on board is knocked out (including Bogg). He's walked through it by an air traffic controller, and manages to successfully land the plane. | |
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Into the Night. Sylvie is a pilot. A helicopter pilot. She picks things up quickly with Mathieu to guide her, but it gets a little dicey when his wound gets infected and takes him out. Sylvie then has to land the plane using a Youtube instructional video. Incidentally it's not just a matter of landing the plane, but staying ahead of the Solar Flare Disaster that's killing anyone exposed to sunlight. | |
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The GURPS adventure Flight 13 may result in this scenario, since the eponymous passenger plane has its pilot incapacitated by a heart attack and its co-pilot by flashbacks. If none of the player characters has a suitable Piloting skill, an NPC passenger has some experience, but is wheelchair-bound, and needs to coach one of the characters through operating the foot controls. | |
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Ted Striker did this in both the dramatic film Zero Hour! (1957) and the much more famous comedy remake, 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. *SPLASH* | |
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Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus: After the pilots become hypnotized in the air, Lucky and Bigman have to figure out how to land the plane on their own. They manage it (but barely), crashing through the planet-wide ocean of Venus. | |
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Family Guy In "Death is a Bitch", Peter, taking over Death's job is forced to kill the kids from Dawson's Creek to prove people can still die. He fails to do so and accidentally killed the pilots. Actress Karen Black steps in and land the plane. In "Airport '07", Peter, Cleveland, and Joe plan to get Quagmire's pilot job back by boarding the plane, drugging the pilots, and Quagmire stepping in and saves the day. Quagmire missed the flight because he had sex with an airport worker. He mourns at the bar and with the help from Hugh Hefner, he went to the control tower and instructs Peter to land the plane safely. In the end, Quagmire got his job back and the other three are released from prison. |
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The Librarians 2014: In "And Santa's Midnight Run", Baird and Stone have to figure out how to land the cargo plane. | |
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In a first-season episode of Emergency!, a man and his teenage son are out flying in a light plane when the father has a heart attack. The son has very little flying experience, so Roy has to talk him through landing the plane before the paramedics can treat the father. Just another day in the life of an L.A. County paramedic... | |
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Mission: Impossible: In "Target Earth", Shannon has to be talked through landing a space shuttle. | |
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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: The Rangers manage to pull off not a "simple" landing, but a freaking planetfall and touchdown with a NASA experimental space plane. After about five minutes in a simulator (and crashing twice there). And this might have happened before Gadget gave Dale his piloting lessons. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Coming of Age", after Jake steals the shuttle, his inexperience at the controls causes him to fall into the planet's gravity well. Picard talks him through how to "bounce" off the planet's atmosphere to avoid burning up. | |
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