Could A Passenger Land An Airplane
 

https://thepointsguy.com/news/could-...d-an-airplane/

Putting aside the question of why I wasted a few minutes of valuable personal time to read this article, I think that, yeah, I probably could land a 777 if I had to.

And I have the winning ticket to Powerball. ;)

The good news is that you could phone APC members for advice.
That is also the bad news. :D

Two suggestions to any non pilot passenger finding themself in that situation:

Edwards AFB dry lake bed in California
Northrup Strip at White Sands missile range New Mexico

A couple of miles of overrun in either direction is never a bad thing.

And, oh, stay away from Groom Lake in Nevada. No sense surviving the landing if you are going to be abducted by aliens anyway...:eek:

There you go, some of that bad advice. :D

What could go wrong?

I've got a couple of types and yet beat the earth into submission without mercy.

On a more practical note, if you ever find yourself in Al Haine's shoes, those are my top divert choices. Bonneville salt flats too.

I would attempt a ditching as the first choice.

The lakebed is much better; slower deceleration than a water landing and you can always approach directly into the wind. One of our guys had to land on one main gear and one pylon tank, causing no damage except a need to re-paint the tank bottom.
The one problem common to both types of landing is judging your HAT without a radar altimeter, and a chase plane can help here.

I saw it in a movie. So sure...no problemo.

Apart from human factors so as sheer panic I’m sure they could be talked into pushing buttons for an auto land.
From my neck of the woods:

https://youtu.be/JPWRrICxrKU

Although he did have his SEL no ME