# Passenger landing a plane safely

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passenger-landing-a-plane-safely/648352>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [January 25, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passenger-landing-a-plane-safely/648352 "2013-01-25T19:03:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passenger-landing-a-plane-safely/648352/41 "2022-05-11T16:30:26Z")

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Bumped.

It happened again:

> **[A passenger with no flying experience landed a plane at a Florida airport...](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/florida-passenger-lands-plane/index.html)**
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> "I have no idea how to fly the airplane."

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