Could You Do It? Land a Plane if the Pilots Were Incapacitated?

Thanks Autobroker #65. An experience of mine many years was when we were all seated on the plane the attendant asked passengers not too worry about all the various mechanical noises we would hear because this was part of the pilot's routine pre-flight check to make sure the plane was safe to fly.

Then followed lots of revving of engines and clunking noises (flaps and things I guess).

After about 10 minutes the attendant said the pilot was not happy with the check with what he had heard and would call out the service engineers to find out what was 'wrong'.

After a long time the attendant announced the problem had been found but would take time to fix - and it would be quicker to change aircraft - that happened to be avaulable.

So we all changed planes - when again the pilots went through all the pre-flight checks - same as before - and announced everything was fine and we would be taking off soon.

The punch line here - all the noises of the pre-flight checks on this plane sounded exactly the same to me as those on the faulty plane - but this time it was OK.

That is behind the theme of my previous questions about how would passengers know the plane was in trouble - where faults needed the expert ear of the pilot - especially if the pilot was incapacitated.

Landing a plane. From a straightforward linguistics sense, anyone can "land" a plane, they are all self landing. Now whether or not you and the plane could fly again....

If it were the last resort I would take my 12 hours at the stick of a PT19 an give it a go. LoL

Landing is just a controlled crash afterall.

For navy pilots.

"otto" is a non pilot..... pilot, and yes could land an airplane. Just make sure you punch in...123. Instead of...321.

With a little bit of help from my friends. MCAS, Alexa, And I-Phone.