I wonder if this sort of thing has ever actually happened. Well, the plane needing a pilot part, not the other thing. Actually, yeah, the other thing too. It seems like the average plane has enough people on board that, if you asked during an emergency if anyone was capable of flying said plane, you’d have a pretty good chance of finding that one asshole who thinks he’s up for it. The one who got an RC plane for Christmas three years ago, totaled it before New Year’s, and thinks that somehow makes him qualified, which is of course bullshit. To have even a semi-decent chance of landing a jetliner with no prior training you’d need to read a least half a dozen Wikipedia pages AND watch Die Hard 2, twice.