Could you land a 737 if your life depended on it?

[Huskersballz]

Let’s say you are on a cross country domestic flight aboard a 737 MAX sitting in seat 1a, you are the only man onboard besides the pilots, the rest of the passengers are women and children. Both the pilots have heart attacks and die. The attendants ask you to take over the controls in the cockpit and you now have to safely land the plane. You will have a technical advisor from the airline in the control tower guiding you through the process. You have access to whatever is normally available from the galley to calm your nerves (coffee, shooters, etc). The plane has no mechanical issues and if you fuck it up everyone including yourself dies. You have the option of landing at airport A where the conditions are clear and sunny but has a 15mph cross wind or airport B where it is low visibility cloudy but no crosswind. Could you do it?

 

[Goskers07]

A Boeing? Like before or after it falls apart?

 

[vailhusker]

No problem

 

[ThomOsborneMD]

It’s like a video game. Anyone can do it.

 

[Napkins]

Easy W. Give me the crosswind and some black coffee.

 

[Scott Hall]

 

[Juro]

I’d just Google mid-flight on how to land the plane. Or message @Dean (AI) on how to land the 737.

 

[RedSavage]

It’s like a video game. Anyone can do it.

Flight simulator pretty much made me an expert

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Doubtful but rest assured I'd do such a bad job that you'd all die almost instantly

 

[SoCal_Corn]

Those things almost land themselves, don't they?


I've watched Kurt Russell do it with a 747 probably 10 times so, yes.




And then I'd get to bang Halle Barry, too...right?

 

[Herbie]

I would crash that mother fucker so fast

 

[Mr.Bojangles]

Simple answer no. I'd give it a hell of a try but still no.

 

[Poor_and_Stupid]

This situation is every flight simmer’s fantasy.



*Me in heaven shortly after killing everyone*

 

[Roy McAvoy]

Yes, but I have my commercial pilot’s license and I’m a former CFI with over 1000 logged flight hours

 

[BingoDingo]

No, but I would choose clear with the crosswind and attempt to pedal it in to fight off death.

 

[MrKnightedHusker]

Lotta folks gonna die.

 

[greybeardedchild]

If I can win a fistfight with a bear, I'm sure I could land a jet.
Actually had a coworker nerd once that figured he could easily do it, as well as set some records at Nurburgring due to his quality time in sims. His only actual real world talent was stacking empty Mountain Dew cans 5' high on his coffee table.

 

[Papa...Football]

Someone watched Airplane! recently. Great movie!

I could fly it right to the scene of the crash

 

[1HuskerDad]

 

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