'Passenger' helps land 737.

[iflyforpie]

Really, he was a B-1B pilot... and he had a first officer on board....



http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/03/travel/73 ... ncy-pilot/

[PilotDAR]

Good job! Darn lucky that they got the professional pilot, rather than the Cessna driver, though, as that professional pilot says, "a plane is a plane...", and all he did was talk on the radio anyway.

[digits_]

Huh ? Is it common practice for airline pilots to ask for pilots in the cabin if one of them is incapacitated ?

[BD8]

CRM........ "use all the resources available to you".

[Prodriver]

Nice!

[Jack Klumpus]

Happened to me at the 705 level. The idea of asking if there's any pilot in the back was never part of my thought process and decision making.

Had it been a company pilot then 100%, however to ask for just any pilot?

End of story. No hero headlines, no books, and no made for TV movie.

[lownslow]

Really? Nobody is going to make a joke about not only finding a pilot on the plane, but finding one who didn't order the fish?

[iflyforpie]

Happened to me at the 705 level. The idea of asking if there's any pilot in the back was never part of my thought process and decision making.

Had it been a company pilot then 100%, however to ask for just any pilot?

End of story. No hero headlines, no books, and no made for TV movie.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

She must have been a 1900 hero who was just fresh off of 737 line indoc because yeah... to allow an unknown quantity behind the secure doors of the sterile cockpit seems a greater risk than just to take a little extra time to fly the aircraft yourself.....

Aviate, navigate, communicate.

[NotDirty!]

Somehow the media missed the really shocking story here:

"COPILOT LANDS 737"

I'm surprised nobody has an interview with one of the passengers claiming to have had a near death experience as the aircraft was being manoeuvred by a lowly copilot. Then they could interview the copilot with such questions as "would you like to be a commercial pilot some day?"!