Howdy, everyone! I recently came across an article describing a study where 780 New Zeland men who have never flown a plane before watched a short, but informationally useless, video on landing a plane. Afterwards, just under 1/3 of them had an increased confidence that they could actually land a plane themselves if called upon to do so, despite the fact that none of them are pilots:
https://www.renews.co.nz/a-disturbin...deo-new-study/
This got me thinking about how often this trope has shown up in movies and TV shows. For example, Dennis Quaid has a movie coming out this month on Amazon Prime ("On a Wing and a Prayer") where his character - a pharmacist - suddenly has to land a plane even though he's not a pilot.
In my head...at least according to my vague, fuzzy memory...it seems like this has happened somewhat often in film/TV, but when I started trying to think of specific examples, I came up mostly empty. But it "feels" like something that I've seen more often than not.
So, I was wondering if the Done Deal hivemind here could help me out in thinking of other movies and/or TV shows (specific episodes would be great) where the main character is on a plane and has to take over and land it himself/herself, despite not being a pilot.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can think of!
https://www.renews.co.nz/a-disturbin...deo-new-study/
This got me thinking about how often this trope has shown up in movies and TV shows. For example, Dennis Quaid has a movie coming out this month on Amazon Prime ("On a Wing and a Prayer") where his character - a pharmacist - suddenly has to land a plane even though he's not a pilot.
In my head...at least according to my vague, fuzzy memory...it seems like this has happened somewhat often in film/TV, but when I started trying to think of specific examples, I came up mostly empty. But it "feels" like something that I've seen more often than not.
So, I was wondering if the Done Deal hivemind here could help me out in thinking of other movies and/or TV shows (specific episodes would be great) where the main character is on a plane and has to take over and land it himself/herself, despite not being a pilot.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can think of!
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